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We prove that a closed negatively curved analytic Riemannian manifold that contains infinitely many totally geodesic hypersurfaces is isometric to an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold. Equivalently, any closed analytic Riemannian manifold with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Simion Filip , David Fisher , Ben Lowe

In this paper, we will use Kahn-Markovic's almost totally geodesic surfaces to construct certain $\pi_1$-injective 2-complexes in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Such 2-complexes are locally almost totally geodesic except along a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Hongbin Sun

We study strip deformations of convex cocompact hyperbolic surfaces, defined by inserting hyperbolic strips along a collection of disjoint geodesic arcs properly embedded in the surface. We prove that any deformation of the surface that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Jeffrey Danciger , François Guéritaud , Fanny Kassel

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

The Bratteli diagram is an infinite graph which reflects the structure of projections in a C*-algebra. We prove that every strictly ergodic unimodular Bratteli diagram of rank 2g+m-1 gives rise to a minimal geodesic lamination with the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Igor Nikolaev

We study compact hyperbolic surface laminations. These are a generalization of closed hyperbolic surfaces which appear to be more suited to the study of Teichm\"uller theory than arbitrary non-compact surfaces. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Sébastien Alvarez , Graham Smith

Let M be a geometrically finite hyperbolic 3-manifold whose limit set is a round Sierpi\'nski gasket, i.e. M is geometrically finite and acylindrical with a compact, totally geodesic convex core boundary. In this paper, we classify orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Dongryul M. Kim , Minju Lee

We show that if P is an embedded least area (area minimizing) plane in hyperbolic 3-space whose asymptotic boundary is a simple closed curve with at least one smooth point, then P is properly embedded.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-14 Baris Coskunuzer

We show that if $M$ is an Einstein hypersurface in an irreducible Riemannian symmetric space $\overline{M}$ of rank greater than $1$ (the classification in the rank-one case was previously known), then either $\overline{M}$ is of noncompact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Yuri Nikolayevsky , JeongHyeong Park

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

We prove a quantitative finiteness theorem for the number of totally geodesic hyperplanes of non-arithmetic hyperbolic $n$-manifolds that arise from a gluing construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro for $n\ge3$. This extends work of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Ko W. Ohm , Anthony Sanchez

The set $\mathit{RT}(M)$ of values of the $\mathit{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-Reidemeister torsion of a 3-manifold $M$ can be both finite and infinite. We prove that $\mathit{RT}(M)$ is a finite set if $M$ is the splice of two certain knots in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Teruaki Kitano , Yuta Nozaki

We study non-positively curved closed manifolds $M$ and $n$-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds of $M \times M$ which satisfy a transversality condition. We prove that, under some mild irreducibility requirements on $M$, if $M \times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Nicholas Hanson

It is shown that every non-compact hyperbolic manifold of finite volume has a finite cover admitting a geodesic ideal triangulation. Also, every hyperbolic manifold of finite volume with non-empty, totally geodesic boundary has a finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Luo , Saul Schleimer , Stephan Tillmann

In this note, we develop a condition on a closed curve on a surface or in a 3-manifold that implies that the curve has the property that its length function on the space of all hyperbolic structures on the surface or 3-manifold completely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-05 James W. Anderson

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 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

We enumerate a necessary condition for the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct, non-constant, prime closed geodesics on an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold $M$. That is, we show that any Riemannian metric on $M$ admits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Sergio Charles

We develop a way of seeing a complete orientable hyperbolic $4$-manifold $\mathcal{M}$ as an orbifold cover of a Coxeter polytope $\mathcal{P} \subset \mathbb{H}^4$ that has a facet colouring. We also develop a way of finding totally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Alexander Kolpakov , Leone Slavich

We consider foliations of the whole three dimensional hyperbolic space H^3 by oriented geodesics. Let L be the space of all the oriented geodesics of H^3, which is a four dimensional manifold carrying two canonical pseudo-Riemannian metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Yamile Godoy , Marcos Salvai