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This paper determines which orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds contain simple closed geodesics. The Fuchsian group corresponding to the thrice-punctured sphere generates the only example of a complete non-elementary orientable hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Colin Adams , Joel Hass , Peter Scott

We describe a natural strategy to enumerate compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary in increasing order of complexity. We show that the same strategy can be employed to analyze simultaneously compact manifolds and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Alexander Mednykh , Carlo Petronio

This notes explores angle structures on ideally triangulated compact $3$-manifolds with high genus boundary. We show that the existence of angle structures implies the existence of a hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Faze Zhang , Ruifeng Qiu , Tian Yang

In this paper we study existence and lack thereof of closed embedded orientable co-dimension one totally geodesic submanifolds of minimal volume cusped orientable hyperbolic manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Michelle Chu , Alan W. Reid

Given a compact orientable 3-manifold M whose boundary is a hyperbolic surface and a simple closed curve C in its boundary, every knot in M is homotopic to one whose complement admits a complete hyperbolic structure with totally geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Kent

I construct infinite families of knots and links with totally geodesic spanning surfaces, which we call TGS knots and TGS links, in various 3-manifolds. These 3-manifolds include thickened orientable surfaces, the sphere cross the circle,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Benjamin Shapiro

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 show that some hyperbolic 3-manifolds which are tessellated by copies of the regular ideal hyperbolic tetrahedron embed geodesically in a complete, finite volume, hyperbolic 4-manifold. This allows us to prove that the complement of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Leone Slavich

An unknotting tunnel in a 3-manifold with boundary is a properly embedded arc, the complement of an open neighborhood of which is a handlebody. A geodesic with endpoints on the cusp boundary of a hyperbolic 3-manifold and perpendicular to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Colin Adams , Karin Knudson

We show that a hyperbolic $3$-manifold can be the cyclic branched cover of at most fifteen knots in $\mathbf{S}^3$. This is a consequence of a general result about finite groups of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms acting on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Michel Boileau , Clara Franchi , Mattia Mecchia , Luisa Paoluzzi , Bruno Zimmermann

This paper considers "geometric" ideal triangulations of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds, i.e. decompositions into positive volume ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra. We exhibit infinitely many geometric ideal triangulations of the figure eight knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Blake Dadd , Aochen Duan

In this paper, we explicitly construct large classes of incommensurable hyperbolic knot complements with the same volume and the same initial (complex) length spectrum. Furthermore, we show that these knot complements are the only knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Christian Millichap

For any hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with totally geodesic boundary, there are finitely many boundary slopes for essential immersed surfaces of a given genus. There is a uniform bound for the number of such boundary slopes if the genus of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Shicheng Wang , Qing Zhou

We consider the problem of when a closed orientable hyperbolic surface admits a totally geodesic embedding into a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold; given a finite isometric group action on the surface, we consider in particular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Bruno P. Zimmermann

We show that large classes of non-arithmetic hyperbolic $n$-manifolds, including the hybrids introduced by Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro and many of their generalizations, have only finitely many finite-volume immersed totally geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-02 David Fisher , Jean-François Lafont , Nicholas Miller , Matthew Stover

Every oriented closed geodesic on the modular surface has a canonically associated knot in its unit tangent bundle coming from the periodic orbit of the geodesic flow. We study the volume of the associated knot complement with respect to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-07 José Andrés Rodríguez Migueles

We extend the complete census of orientable cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifolds to $10$ tetrahedra, giving the next $150730$ manifolds and their $496638$ minimal ideal triangulations. As applications, we find the precisely $439898$ exceptional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Shana Yunsheng Li

In this article, we give explicit examples of infinitely many non-commensurable (non-arithmetic) hyperbolic $3$-manifolds admitting exactly $k$ totally geodesic surfaces for any positive integer $k$, answering a question of Bader, Fisher,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Khanh Le , Rebekah Palmer

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

In this paper we show that a given set of lengths of closed geodesics, there are only finitely many convex cocompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with that specified length spectrum, homotopy equivalent to a given 3-manifold without a handlebody…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Gilles Courtois , Inkang Kim