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In a variety of settings we provide a method for decomposing a 3-manifold $M$ into pieces. When the pieces have the appropriate type of hyperbolicity, then the manifold $M$ is hyperbolic and its volume is bounded below by the sum of the…

If a closed, orientable hyperbolic 3--manifold M has volume at most 1.22 then H_1(M;Z_p) has dimension at most 2 for every prime p not 2 or 7, and H_1(M;Z_2) and H_1(M;Z_7) have dimension at most 3. The proof combines several deep results…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Ian Agol , Marc Culler , Peter B Shalen

We give a closed formula for volumes of generic hyperbolic tetrahedra in terms of edge lengths. The cue of our formula is by the volume conjecture for the Turaev-Viro invariant of closed 3-manifolds, which is defined from the quantum…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Murakami , Akira Ushijima

We study the relationship between two norms on the first cohomology of a hyperbolic 3-manifold: the purely topological Thurston norm and the more geometric harmonic norm. Refining recent results of Bergeron, \c{S}eng\"un, and Venkatesh as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Jeffrey F. Brock , Nathan M. Dunfield

Extending methods first used by Casson, we show how to verify a hyperbolic structure on a finite triangulation of a closed 3-manifold using interval arithmetic methods. A key ingredient is a new theoretical result (akin to a theorem by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Matthias Goerner

In this paper we study the systoles of arithmetic hyperbolic 2- and 3-manifolds. Our first result is the construction of infinitely many arithmetic hyperbolic 2- and 3-manifolds which are pairwise noncommensurable, all have the same…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Laurel Heck , Benjamin Linowitz

We prove (Theorem~1.5) that there exists a constant $\Lambda > 0$ so that if $M$ is a $(\mu,d)$-generic complete hyperbolic 3-manifold of volume $\vol[M] < \infty$ and $\Sigma \subset M$ is a Heegaard surface of genus $g(\Sigma) > \Lambda…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Tsuyoshi Kobayashi , Yo'av Rieck

Let $M$ be a closed $n$-manifold with nonzero simplicial volume. A central result in systolic geometry from Gromov is that systolic volume of $M$ is related to its simplicial volume. In this short note, we show that systolic volume of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Lizhi Chen

We investigate the rigidity of hyperbolic cone metrics on $3$-manifolds which are isometric gluing of ideal and hyper-ideal tetrahedra in hyperbolic spaces. These metrics will be called ideal and hyper-ideal hyperbolic polyhedral metrics.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Feng Luo , Tian Yang

We compare the volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ of finite volume and the complexity of its fundamental group.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Thomas Delzant , Leonid Potyagailo

We show that every sequence of torsion-free arithmetic congruence lattices in $\mathrm{PGL}(2,\mathbb R)$ or $\mathrm{PGL}(2,\mathbb C)$ satisfies a strong quantitative version of the Limit Multiplicity property. We deduce that for $R>0$ in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Mikolaj Fraczyk

We show that any closed hyperbolic 3-manifold M admits a Riemannian metric with scalar curvature at least -6, but with volume entropy strictly larger than 2. In particular, this construction gives counterexamples to a conjecture of I. Agol,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Demetre Kazaras , Antoine Song , Kai Xu

A closed connected hyperbolic $n$-manifold bounds geometrically if it is isometric to the geodesic boundary of a compact hyperbolic $(n+1)$-manifold. A. Reid and D. Long have shown by arithmetic methods the existence of infinitely many…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Alexander Kolpakov , Bruno Martelli , Steven T. Tschantz

Given the fundamental group $\Gamma$ of a finite-volume complete hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$, it is possible to associate to any representation $\rho:\Gamma \rightarrow \text{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^3)$ a numerical invariant called volume. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Stefano Francaviglia , Alessio Savini

We show that if $M$ is any closed, orientable hyperbolic $3$-manifold with ${\rm vol}\ M\le3.69$, we have ${\rm dim}\ H_1(M;{\bf F}_2)\le7$. This may be regarded as a qualitative improvement of a result due to Culler and Shalen, because the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Rosemary K. Guzman , Peter B. Shalen

In this paper, we prove that the systolic volume of a closed aspherical 3-manifold is bounded below in terms of complexity. Systolic volume is defined as the optimal constant in a systolic inequality. Babenko showed that the systolic volume…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Lizhi Chen

If M is a closed simple 3-manifold whose fundamental group contains a genus-g surface group for some g>1, and if the dimension of H_1(M;Z_2) is at least max(3g-1,6), we show that M contains a closed, incompressible surface of genus at most…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Marc Culler , Peter B. Shalen

We prove uniform linear bounds on the volume variation under drilling and filling operations on finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Gabriele Viaggi

Suppose $\bar{M}$ is a compact connected odd-dimensional manifold with boundary, whose interior $M$ comes with a complete hyperbolic metric of finite volume. We will show that the $L^2$-topological torsion of $\bar{M}$ and the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Wolfgang Lueck , Thomas Schick

We consider closed orientable 3-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds which are cyclic branched coverings of the 3-sphere, with branching set being a two-bridge knot (or link). We establish two-sided linear bounds depending on the order of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Carlo Petronio , Andrei Vesnin