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We prove that any compact, orientable 3-manifold with empty or toral boundary is profinitely almost rigid among all compact, orientable 3-manifolds. In other words, the profinite completion of its fundamental group determines its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Xiaoyu Xu

We prove a finiteness theorem for subgroups of bounded rank in hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups. As a consequence, we show that every bounded rank covering tower of closed hyperbolic $3$-manifolds is a tower of finite covers associated to a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Ian Biringer

In this paper, we study some intrinsic characterization of conformally compact manifolds. We show that, if a complete Riemannian manifold admits an essential set and its curvature tends to -1 at infinity in certain rate, then it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Xue Hu , Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi

We show that the aspherical manifolds produced via the relative strict hyperbolization of polyhedra enjoy many group-theoretic and topological properties of open finite volume negatively pinched manifolds, including relative hyperbolicity,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Igor Belegradek

We prove the convex combination theorem for hyperbolic n-manifolds. Applications are given both in high dimensions and in 3 dimensions. One consequence is that given two geometrically finite subgroups of a discrete group of isometries of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Mark Baker , Daryl Cooper

We prove that every complete finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ that is tessellated into (embedded) right-angled regular polyhedra (dodecahedra or ideal octahedra) embeds geodesically in a complete finite-volume connected orientable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Bruno Martelli

Surface groups are determined among limit groups by their profinite completions. As a corollary, the set of surface words in a free group is closed in the profinite topology.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Henry Wilton

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

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

A well-known question asks whether any two non-isometric finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds are distinguished from each other by the finite quotients of their fundamental groups. At present, this has been proved only when one of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Giles Gardam

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

We construct compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary, such that the closed 3-pseudomanifolds obtained by coning off the boundary components are negatively curved and contain locally convex subspaces whose fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Jason Manning , Lorenzo Ruffoni

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

A symplectic form is called hyperbolic if its pull-back to the universal cover is a differential of a bounded one-form. The present paper is concerned with the properties and constructions of manifolds admitting hyperbolic symplectic forms.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-27 Jarek Kedra

We introduce a simple algorithm which transforms every four-dimensional cubulation into a cusped finite-volume hyperbolic four-manifold. Combinatorially distinct cubulations give rise to topologically distinct manifolds. Using this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Alexander Kolpakov , Bruno Martelli

We show that the covolume of an irreducible lattice in a higher rank semisimple Lie group with the congruence subgroup property is determined by the profinite completion. Without relying on CSP, we additionally show that volume is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Holger Kammeyer , Steffen Kionke , Ralf Köhl

We prove that certain Fuchsian triangle groups are profinitely rigid in the absolute sense, i.e. each is distinguished from all other finitely generated, residually finite groups by its set of finite quotients. We also develop a method…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-04 M. R. Bridson , D. B. McReynolds , A. W. Reid , R. Spitler

We consider the existence of simple closed geodesics or "geodesic knots" in finite volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Previous results show that at least one geodesic knot always exists [Bull. London Math. Soc. 31(1) (1999) 81-86],…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-02 Sally M Kuhlmann

It is well-known that there are 19 classes of geometries for 4-dimensional manifolds in the sense of Thurston. We could ask that to what extent the geometric information is revealed by the profinite completion of the fundamental group of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Jiming Ma , Zixi Wang

Let N be a manifold (with boundary) of dimension at least 3, such that its interior admits a hyperbolic metric of finite volume. We discuss the possible limits arising from sequences of relative fundamental cycles approximating the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Thilo Kuessner