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In recent years, several families of hyperbolic knots have been shown to have both volume and $\lambda_1$ (first eigenvalue of the Laplacian) bounded in terms of the twist number of a diagram, while other families of knots have volume…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-07-12 David Futer , Efstratia Kalfagianni , Jessica S. Purcell

If a Legendrian knot $\Lambda$ in the standard contact 3-sphere bounds an orientable exact Lagrangian surface $\Sigma$ in the standard symplectic 4-ball, then the genus of $\Sigma$ is equal to the slice genus of (the smooth knot underlying)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Tolga Etgü

We provide a positive answer to an old problem of Jonathan K. Simon: if $K$ and $K'$ are two knots such that there is an epimorphism from the knot group of $K$ to the knot group of $K'$, then the genus of $K$ is greater than or equal to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Pablo Sánchez-Peralta

We consider pairs (X,Y) where X is a compact, locally CAT(-1) space, and Y is a totally geodesic subspace. The inclusion induces an embedding of the boundaries at infinity of the universal covers; we focus on the case where these are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-10 F. T. Farrell , J. -F. Lafont

We review the theory of splittings of hyperbolic groups, as determined by the topology of the boundary. We give explicit examples of certain phenomena and then use this to describe limit sets of Kleinian groups up to homeomorphism.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Peter Haïssinsky , Luisa Paoluzzi , Genevieve Walsh

We describe relations between hyperbolic geometry and codimension two knots or, more exactly, between varieties of conjugacy classes of discrete faithful representations of the fundamental groups of hyperbolic n-manifolds M into…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Apanasov

In this article, we prove a version of Martin and Skora's conjecture that convergence groups on the $2$-sphere are covered by Kleinian groups. Given a relatively hyperbolic group pair $(G,\mathcal{P})$ with planar boundary and no Sierpinski…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-03 G. Christopher Hruska , Genevieve S. Walsh

The goal of this paper is to describe a theoretical construction of an infinite collection of non-classical Schottky groups. We first show that there are infinitely many non-classical noded Schottky groups on the boundary of Schottky space,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Ruben A. Hidalgo , Bernard Maskit

Troels Jorgensen conjectured that the algebraic and geometric limits of an algebraically convergent sequence of isomorphic Kleinian groups agree if there are no new parabolics in the algebraic limit. We prove that this conjecture holds in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James W. Anderson , Richard D. Canary

We give a criterion in terms of the boundary for the existence of a proper cocompact action of a word-hyperbolic group on a CAT(0) cube complex. We describe applications towards lattices and hyperbolic 3-manifold groups. In particular, by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-17 Nicolas Bergeron , Daniel T. Wise

In this paper, we introduce a particularly nice family of locally CAT(-1) spaces, which we call hyperbolic P-manifolds. For $X^3$ a simple, thick hyperbolic P-manifold of dimension 3, we show that certain subsets of the boundary at infinity…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -F. Lafont

We prove an effective version of a theorem relating curve complex distance to electric distance in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, up to errors that are polynomial in the complexity of the underlying surface. We use this to give an effective proof…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Tarik Aougab , Priyam Patel , Samuel J. Taylor

We present new families of examples of non-simple prime Legendrian and transversal knots in tight Lens spaces, which demonstrate that the botany of Legendrians in Lens space is rich. In fact, there are more non-isotopic Legendrians that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ipsita Datta , Tanushree Shah

We show that a Kleinian surface group, or hyperbolic 3-manifold with a cusp-preserving homotopy-equivalence to a surface, has bounded geometry if and only if there is an upper bound on an associated collection of coefficients that depend…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Yair N. Minsky

We prove that there are compact submanifolds of the 3-sphere whose interiors are not homeomorphic to any geometric limit of hyperbolic knot complements.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Richard P. Kent , Juan Souto

Let $M$ be a closed, orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold and $\phi$ a homomorphism of its fundamental group onto $\mathbb{Z}$ that is not induced by a fibration over the circle. For each natural number $n$ we give an explicit lower bound,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Jason DeBlois

We present recent results on counting and distribution of circles in a given circle packing invariant under a geometrically finite Kleinian group and discuss how the dynamics of flows on geometrically finite hyperbolic $3$ manifolds are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Hee Oh

We exhibit a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold which satisfies a very strong form of Thurston's Virtual Fibration Conjecture. In particular, this manifold has finite covers which fiber over the circle in arbitrarily many ways. More precisely, it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Nathan M. Dunfield , Dinakar Ramakrishnan

Given a real analytic function $f$ from $\mathbb{R}^4$ to $\mathbb{R}^2$ with isolated critical point at the origin, the link $L_f$ of the singularity is a real fibred knot in $\mathbb{S}^{3}$. From this singularities, we construct a family…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Haydée Aguilar-Cabrera

The first and third authors recently proved that for each knot $K\subset S^3$ there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to $K$. In this paper, we remove the hyperbolic constraint, proving that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-25 John A. Baldwin , Jonathan Hanselman , Steven Sivek