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We prove that if two cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifolds admit a regular isomorphism between the profinite completions of their fundamental groups, then they share the same $A$-polynomial and their strongly detected boundary slopes match up.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Tamunonye Cheetham-West , Youheng Yao

We prove that there are only finitely many closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds with injectivity radius and first eigenvalue of the Laplacian bounded below whose fundamental groups can be generated by a given number of elements. An application to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Ian Biringer Juan Souto

It was conjectured by Lopez that every closed irreducible non-Haken 3-manifold contains a small knot. In this paper, we give explicit examples of hyperbolic small knots in most closed orientable spherical 3-manifolds other than prism…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kazuhiro Ichihara

The work of Jorgensen and Thurston shows that there is a finite number N(v) of orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds with any given volume v. We show that there is an infinite sequence of closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds, obtained by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-30 Craig Hodgson , Hidetoshi Masai

We introduce a class of cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifolds that we call mixed-platonic, composed of regular ideal hyperbolic polyhedra of more than one type, which includes certain previously-known examples. We establish basic facts about…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Eric Chesebro , Michelle Chu , Jason DeBlois , Neil R. Hoffman , Priyadip Mondal , Genevieve S. Walsh

We provide two new proofs of a theorem of Cooper, Long and Reid which asserts that, apart from an explicit finite list of exceptional manifolds, any compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold with non-empty boundary has large fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Lackenby

Any action of a group $\Gamma$ on $\mathbb H^3$ by isometries yields a class in degree three bounded cohomology by pulling back the volume cocycle to $\Gamma$. We prove that the bounded cohomology of finitely generated Kleinian groups…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-21 James Farre

In this paper, we prove the Bounded Height Conjecture which the author formulated in [2]. As a corollary, it follows that there are only a finite number of hyperbolic three manifolds of bounded volume and trace field degree.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-09 BoGwang Jeon

Let $(M, \partial M)$ be a compact 3-manifold with boundary, which admits a convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on $M$ such that the boundary is smooth and strictly convex. We show that the induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jean-Marc Schlenker

We describe four hyperbolic knot complements in $\mathbb{S}^3$, each of which covers a prism orbifold: the quotient of $\mathbb{H}^3$ by the action of a discrete group generated by reflections in the faces of a polyhedron that has the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jason DeBlois , Arshia Gharagozlou , Neil R Hoffman

This paper exhibits an infinite family of hyperbolic knot complements that have three knot complements in their respective commensurability classes.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Neil R. Hoffman

We prove existence of thick geodesic triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and use this to prove existence of universal bounds on the principal curvatures of surfaces embedded in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-23 William Breslin

A 4-manifold is constructed with some curious metric properties; or maybe it is many 4-manifolds masquerading as one, which would explain why it looks curious. Anyway, knots in the 3-sphere with complete finite volume hyperbolic metrics on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Clifford Henry Taubes

It is unknown whether an unknotting tunnel is always isotopic to a geodesic in a finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold. In this paper, we address the generalization of this problem to hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting tunnel systems. We show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stephan D. Burton , Jessica S. Purcell

In this paper, we classify completely hyperbolic 3-manifolds corresponding to geometric limits of Kleinian surface groups isomorphic to $\pi_1(S)$ for a finite-type hyperbolic surface $S$. In the first of the three main theorems, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Ken'ichi Ohshika , Teruhiko Soma

Let W be a compact hyperbolic n-manifold with totally geodesic boundary. We prove that if n>3 then the holonomy representation of pi_1 (W) into the isometry group of hyperbolic n-space is infinitesimally rigid.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Steven P. Kerckhoff , Peter A. Storm

We show that for certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds, all boundary slopes are slopes of immersed incompressible surfaces, covered by incompressible embeddings in some finite cover. The manifolds include hyperbolic punctured torus bundles and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph Maher

It is well known that an arbitrary closed orientable $3$-manifold can be realized as the unique boundary of a compact orientable $4$-manifold, that is, any closed orientable $3$-manifold is cobordant to zero. In this paper, we consider the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jiming Ma , Fangting Zheng

We correct and complete a conjecture of D. Gabai, R. Meyerhoff and N. Thurston on the classification and properties of thin tubed closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We additionally show that if N is a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold, then either…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-22 David Gabai , Maria Trnkova

For a single cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold, Hodgson proved that there are only finitely many Dehn fillings of it whose trace fields have bounded degree. In this paper, we conjecture the same for manifolds with more cusps, and give the first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-06 BoGwang Jeon