English
Related papers

Related papers: Reducing Dehn fillings and small surfaces

200 papers

We conjecture that for every dimension n not equal 3 there exists a noncompact hyperbolic n-manifold whose volume is smaller than the volume of any compact hyperbolic n-manifold. For dimensions n at most 4 and n=6 this conjecture follows…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Mikhail Belolipetsky , Vincent Emery

If a graph is in bridge position in a 3-manifold so that the graph complement is irreducible and boundary irreducible, we generalize a result of Bachman and Schleimer to prove that the complexity of a surface properly embedded in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Marion Campisi , Matt Rathbun

If M is a manifold with compressible boundary, we analyze essential disks in M, as well as incompressible, but not necessarily boundary incompressible, surfaces in M. We are most interested in the case where M is a handlebody or compression…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-06 Charalampos Charitos , Ulrich Oertel

We derive basic differential geometric formulae for surfaces in hyperbolic space represented as envelopes of horospheres. The dual notion of parallel hypersurfaces is also studied. The representation is applied to prove existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Charles L. Epstein

Haken showed that the Heegaard splittings of reducible 3-manifolds are reducible, that is, a reducing 2-sphere can be found which intersects the Heegaard surface in a single simple closed curve. When the genus of the "interesting" surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Abigail Thompson

Chern number formulas for holomorphic jet bundles are computed for projective curves and for projective surfaces. These formulas are used to show that certain minimal surfaces of general type (generic hypersurfaces of degree at least 5 in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Stoll , P. M. Wong

In our previous paper, we discussed the hyperbolization of the configuration space of n(> 4) marked points with weights in the projective line up to projective transformations. A variation of the weights induces a deformation. It was shown…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Yasushi Yamashita , Haruko Nishi , Sadayoshi Kojima

We show that the set of cusp shapes of hyperbolic tunnel number one manifolds is dense in the Teichmuller space of the torus. A similar result holds for tunnel number n manifolds. As a consequence, for fixed n, there are infinitely many…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Vinh Dang , Jessica S. Purcell

We construct sequences of `expander manifolds' and we use them to show that there is a complete connected 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold with discontinuous isoperimetric profile, answering a question of Nardulli and Pansu. Using expander…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Panos Papasoglu , Eric Swenson

Since there is no hyperbolic Dehn filling theorem for higher dimensions, it is challenging to construct explicit hyperbolic manifolds of small volume in dimension at least four. Here, we build up closed hyperbolic 4-manifolds of volume…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Jiming Ma , Fangting Zheng

We prove a new lower bound for the almost 20 year old problem of determining the smallest possible size of an essential cover of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $\{\pm 1\}^n$, i.e. the smallest possible size of a collection of hyperplanes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Lisa Sauermann , Zixuan Xu

A group theoretic version of Dehn surgery is studied. Starting with an arbitrary relatively hyperbolic group $G$ we define a peripheral filling procedure, which produces quotients of $G$ by imitating the effect of the Dehn filling of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-11 D. Osin

In a recent paper Garoufalidis and Reid constructed pairs of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds which are isospectral but not isometric. In this paper we extend this work to the multi-cusped setting by constructing isospectral but not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Benjamin Linowitz

We consider the natural problem of counting isotopy classes of essential surfaces in 3-manifolds, focusing on closed essential surfaces in a broad class of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Our main result is that the count of (possibly disconnected)…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Nathan M. Dunfield , Stavros Garoufalidis , J. Hyam Rubinstein

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

Recent literature on Weil-Petersson random hyperbolic surfaces has met a consistent obstacle: the necessity to condition the model, prohibiting certain rare geometric patterns (which we call tangles), such as short closed geodesics or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nalini Anantharaman , Laura Monk

For any H in [0,1), we construct complete, non-proper, stable, simply-connected surfaces with constant mean curvature H embedded in hyperbolic 3-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Baris Coskunuzer , William H. Meeks , Giuseppe Tinaglia

To a hyperbolic manifold one can associate a canonical projective structure and ask whether it can be deformed or not. In a cusped manifold, one can ask about the existence of deformations that are trivial on the boundary. We prove that if…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Michael Heusener , Joan Porti

It is shown that with finitely many exceptions, the fundamental group obtained by Dehn surgery on a one cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold contains the fundamental group of a closed surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 D Cooper , D D Long

We give effective bilipschitz bounds on the change in metric between thick parts of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold and its long Dehn fillings. In the thin parts of the manifold, we give effective bounds on the change in complex length of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-29 David Futer , Jessica S. Purcell , Saul Schleimer