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Dehn surgery, homology and hyperbolic volume

Geometric Topology 2009-07-06 v4

Abstract

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 about hyperbolic 3--manifolds. The strategy is to compare the volume of a tube about a shortest closed geodesic C in M with the volumes of tubes about short closed geodesics in a sequence of hyperbolic manifolds obtained from M by Dehn surgeries on C.

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@article{arxiv.math/0508208,
  title  = {Dehn surgery, homology and hyperbolic volume},
  author = {Ian Agol and Marc Culler and Peter B Shalen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508208},
  year   = {2009}
}

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This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 8 December 2006

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