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We prove that any complete hyperbolic 3--manifold with finitely generated fundamental group, with a single topological end, and which embeds into $\BS^3$ is the geometric limit of a sequence of hyperbolic knot complements in $\BS^3$. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jessica S. Purcell , Juan Souto

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

A fundamental way to study 3-manifolds is through the geometric lens, one of the most prominent geometries being the hyperbolic one. We focus on the computation of a complete hyperbolic structure on a connected orientable hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Clément Maria , Owen Rouillé

We construct infinite families of chirally cosmetic surgeries on chiral hyperbolic knots and purely cosmetic surgeries on hyperbolic manifolds with multiple cusps, disproving conjectures that these phenomena do not appear, including Problem…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Qiuyu Ren

This is the third in a series of papers constructing hyperbolic structures on all Haken three-manifolds. This portion deals with the mixed case of the deformation space for manifolds with incompressible boundary that are not acylindrical,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William P. Thurston

We classify the complete hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting a maximal cusp of volume at most 2.62. We use this to show that the figure-8 knot complement is the unique 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold with nine or more non-hyperbolic fillings;…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-30 David Gabai , Robert Haraway , Robert Meyerhoff , Nathaniel Thurston , Andrew Yarmola

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

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

This paper contains examples of closed aspherical manifolds obtained as a by-product of recent work by the author [arXiv:math.GR/0509490] on the relative strict hyperbolization of polyhedra. The following is proved. (I) Any closed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Igor Belegradek

Hyperbolic Dehn surgery and the bending procedure provide two ways which can be used to describe hyperbolic deformations of a complete hyperbolic structure on a 3-manifold. Moreover, one can obtain examples of non-Haken manifolds without…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Georgios Kydonakis

This note surveys recent progress toward the profinite rigidity of orientable finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Beginning in a brief review of some basic settings of profinite completion and rigidity of general groups, we state the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Tianwei Liu

An ideal triangulation $\mathcal{T}$ of a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with one cusp is non-peripheral if no edge of $\mathcal{T}$ is homotopic to a curve in the boundary torus of $M$. For such a triangulation, the gluing and completeness…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Stavros Garoufalidis , Iain Moffatt , Dylan P. Thurston

A combinatorial condition is obtained for when immersed or embedded incompressible surfaces in compact 3-manifolds with tori boundary components remain incompressible after Dehn surgery. A combinatorial characterisation of hierarchies is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Iain R. Aitchison , J. Hyam Rubinstein

Let $M$ be a hyperbolic 3-manifold with no rank two cusps admitting an embedding in $\mathbb S^3$. Then, if $M$ admits an exhaustion by $\pi_1$-injective sub-manifolds there exists cantor sets $C_n\subset \mathbb S^3$ such that $N_n=\mathbb…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Tommaso Cremaschi , Franco Vargas Pallete

We show that any exceptional non-trivial Dehn surgery on a twist knot, except the trefoil, yields a 3-manifold whose fundamental group is left-orderable. This is a generalization of a result of Clay, Lidman and Watson, and also gives a new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Masakazu Teragaito

We give a list of hyperbolic two-bridge links which includes all such links with complete exceptional surgeries, i.e., Dehn surgeries on both components which yield non-hyperbolic manifolds but whose all the proper sub-fillings give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Kazuhiro Ichihara , In Dae Jong , Hidetoshi Masai

Boyer, Gordon, and Watson have conjectured that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Since Dehn surgeries on knots in $S^3$ can produce large families of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Shiyu Liang

Using the rational surgery formula for the Casson--Walker--Lescop invariant of links in the $3$-sphere, we show that any null-homologous knot in a rational homology sphere admits at most two pairs of integral purely cosmetic surgeries. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Kazuhiro Ichihara , In Dae Jong , Yasuyoshi Tsutsumi

Let $M$ be a $3$--dimensional handlebody of genus $g$. This paper gives examples of hyperbolic knots in $M$ with arbitrarily large genus $g$ bridge number which admit Dehn surgeries which are boundary-reducible manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Kenneth L. Baker , R. Sean Bowman , John Luecke

It has been observed that most manifolds in the Callahan-Hildebrand-Weeks census of cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifolds are obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5-chain link. A full classification of the exceptional surgeries on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-02 Fionntan Roukema