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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

Bounded-type 3-manifolds arise as combinatorially bounded gluings of irreducible 3-manifolds chosen from a finite list. We prove effective hyperbolization and effective rigidity for a broad class of 3-manifolds of bounded type and large…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jeffrey Brock , Yair Minsky , Hossein Namazi , 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

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

The triangulation complexity of a closed orientable 3-manifold is the minimal number of tetrahedra in any triangulation of the manifold. The main theorem of the paper gives upper and lower bounds on the triangulation complexity of any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Marc Lackenby , Jessica S. Purcell

This survey paper contains an elementary exposition of Casson and Rivin's technique for finding the hyperbolic metric on a 3-manifold M with toroidal boundary. We also survey a number of applications of this technique. The method involves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-17 David Futer , François Guéritaud

We prove that there exists a metric of positive curvature in a three-sphere which admits a given torus knot as a closed geodesic.We also sketch a construction of a metric in a four sphere, very likely of positive curvature, which admits a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Alexander Reznikov

We extend the theory of hyperbolicity of links in the 3-sphere to tg-hyperbolicity of virtual links, using the fact that the theory of virtual links can be translated into the theory of links living in closed orientable thickened surfaces.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Colin Adams , Or Eisenberg , Jonah Greenberg , Kabir Kapoor , Zhen Liang , Kate O'Connor , Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj , Yi Wang

We generalize the results of [AS], finding large classes of totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements, each the lift of a rigid 2-orbifold embedded in some hyperbolic 3-orbifold. In addition, we provide a…

We prove hyperbolic 3-manifolds are geometrically inflexible: a unit quasiconformal deformation of a Kleinian group extends to an equivariant bi-Lipschitz diffeomorphism between quotients whose pointwise bi-Lipschitz constant decays…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jeffrey Brock , Kenneth Bromberg

Tightness of a triangulated manifold is a topological condition, roughly meaning that any simplexwise linear embedding of the triangulation into euclidean space is "as convex as possible". It can thus be understood as a generalization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-04 Felix Effenberger

By using Klein's model for hyperbolic geometry, hyperbolic structures on orbifolds or manifolds provide examples of real projective structures. By Andreev's theorem, many 3-dimensional reflection orbifolds admit a finite volume hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-24 Suhyoung Choi , Craig D. Hodgson , Gye-Seon Lee

We show that any immersion, which is not a covering of an embedded 2-orbifold, of a totally geodesic hyperbolic turnover in a complete orientable hyperbolic 3-orbifold is contained in a hyperbolic 3-suborbifold with totally geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-07-30 Shawn Rafalski

The set of canonical decompositions of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold is a complete topological invariant. However, there are only a handful of infinite families for which canonical decompositions are known. In this paper, we find canonical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Sophie L. Ham

We describe an algorithm which has enabled us to give a complete list, without repetitions, of all closed oriented irreducible 3-manifolds of complexity up to 9. More interestingly, we have actually been able to give a "name" to each such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruno Martelli , Carlo Petronio

We give a bounded runtime solution to the homeomorphism problem for closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. This is an algorithm which, given two triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds by at most $t$ tetrahedra, decides if they represent the same…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Joe Scull

The hyperbolic structure on a 3-dimensional cone-manifold with a knot as singularity can often be deformed into a limiting Euclidean structure. In the present paper we show that the respective normalised Euclidean volume is always an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Nikolay Abrosimov , Alexander Kolpakov , Alexander Mednykh

A geometric triangulation of a Riemannian manifold is a triangulation where the interior of each simplex is totally geodesic. Bistellar moves are local changes to the triangulation which are higher dimensional versions of the flip operation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Tejas Kalelkar , Advait Phanse

We study compact three-manifolds with boundary obtained by randomly gluing together truncated tetrahedra along their faces. We prove that, asymptotically almost surely as the number of tetrahedra tends to infinity, these manifolds are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Bram Petri , Jean Raimbault

We consider links that are alternating on surfaces embedded in a compact 3-manifold. We show that under mild restrictions, the complement of the link decomposes into simpler pieces, generalising the polyhedral decomposition of alternating…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Joshua A. Howie , Jessica S. Purcell