Classifies Nil 3-manifolds as cross-sections of complex hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Identifying Nil 3-manifolds as cross-sections of complex hyperbolic surfaces.
method Comprehensive classification of commensurability classes of cusped, arithmetic, and non-arithmetic complex hyperbolic 2-manifolds.
result Some Nil 3-manifolds are cross-sections in every commensurability class, while others are cross-sections in only one.
Study on Cheeger constant in specific hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Analyzing Cheeger constant in convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Examining Cheeger constant as a functional in the space of specific hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result Global maximum of Cheeger constant is uniquely attained at the Fuchsian locus.
New hyperbolic 3-manifolds have many neighbors.
problem Finding hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a large number of neighbors.
method Constructed a sequence of non-compact finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result The kissing number grows at least as fast as the volume to the power of 31/27 - ε.
Proves unique hyperbolic metric for 3-manifolds with ideal triangulation.
problem Proving a unique hyperbolic metric for 3-manifolds with specific triangulations.
method Combining combinatorial Ricci flow with ideal triangulation for pseudo 3-manifolds.
result Extended Ricci flow converges to the hyperbolic metric exponentially fast.
Paper finds minimum volume for specific anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds.
problem Finding the minimum volume of globally hyperbolic anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds.
method Analyzes maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy-compact anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds.
result Minimum volume is π²|χ(M)|, attained for Fuchsian manifolds.
3-manifold groups can only have convex co-compact representations if they are geometric or hyperbolic.
problem Understanding which 3-manifold groups can have convex co-compact representations.
method Analyzing representations of 3-manifold groups into projective general linear group, focusing on convex co-compactness.
result Fundamental groups of closed irreducible orientable 3-manifolds can only admit convex co-compact representations if they are geometric or hyperbolic.
Study shows infimum of dual volume equals convex core volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Infimum of dual volume of convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Varying geometry by quasi-isometric deformations to deduce infimum.
result Linear lower bound on quasi-Fuchsian manifold volume based on bending lamination length.
The study reveals a persistent bias in the distribution of holonomy on compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem The distribution of holonomy on compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds is not uniformly distributed.
method An asymptotic count of closed geodesics by their length and holonomy, and analysis of spectral parameters.
result A normalized, smoothed bias count of holonomy is distributed according to a probability distribution, controlled by the number of zero spectral parameters.
We will show that, for any noncompact arithmetic hyperbolic m-manifold with m>3, and any compact arithmetic hyperbolic m-manifold with m>4 that is not a 7-dimensional arithmetic hyperbolic manifold defined by octonions, its fundamental group is not LERF. The main ingredient in the proof is a study on abelia…
Paper proves Luo's conjecture for 3D triangulated manifolds.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary.
method Introduced and extended combinatorial Ricci flow to handle singularities.
result Proved Luo's conjecture affirmatively for ideal triangulations.
Proves hyperbolic 3-manifolds have angle structures under certain conditions.
problem Proving angle structures for non-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Subdividing ideal polyhedral decompositions and applying topological conditions.
result Proves existence of ideal triangulations with angle structures.
The study finds a bound on the shortest geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Finding bounds on the shortest geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Establishing an upper bound for the length of the nth shortest closed geodesic in terms of the volume of the manifold. result An upper bound for the length of the nth shortest closed geodesic in terms of the volume of the manifold. Profinite rigidity of certain 3-manifolds detected through Dehn fillings.
problem Detecting profinite rigidity in 3-manifolds.
method Observation of profinite isomorphisms between cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their Dehn fillings.
result Some cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds are profinitely rigid.
We enumerate the small-volume manifolds that can be obtained by Dehn filling on Mom-2 and Mom-3 manifolds as defined by Gabai, Meyerhoff, and the author. In so doing we complete the proof that the Weeks manifold is the minimum-volume compact hyperbolic 3-manifold, as well as enumerating the 10 smallest one-cusped hyper…
The renormalized volume is reinterpreted using isoperimetric profiles.
problem Understanding the renormalized volume of convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Using isoperimetric profiles and Minkowski inequalities.
result A sharp Minkowski inequality for horospherically convex sets in H3. We prove that the deformation space AH(M) of marked hyperbolic 3-manifolds homotopy equivalent to a fixed compact 3-manifold M with incompressible boundary is locally connected at quasiconformally rigid points.
Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken manifolds and normal surface theory yield an algorithm to determine whether or not a compact orientable 3-manifold with nonempty boundary consisting of tori admits a complete finite-volume hyperbolic metric on its interior. A conjecture of Gabai, Meyerhoff, and Milley reduce…
Upper bounds on area for surfaces with constant mean curvature in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Finding area constraints for surfaces with constant mean curvature in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Established an upper bound on the area of closed embedded surfaces with constant mean curvature at least one, depending on the mean curvature and genus bounds.
result Area bound implies compactness for such surfaces, with specific proportional bounds for Bryant surfaces.
A finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold geometrically bounds if it is the geodesic boundary of a finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifold. We construct here an example of non-compact, finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold that geometrically bounds. The 3-manifold is the complement of a link with eight components, and its volume…
Study bounds changes in hyperbolic 3-manifold structures after drilling short geodesics.
problem Bounding changes in complex projective structures after drilling short geodesics.
method Analyzes L2-bounds on changes in conformally compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds. result Change is bounded by a universal constant times the square root of the length of the drilled geodesics.
3-manifolds with hyperbolic handlebody complements are studied.
problem Understanding the geometry of 3-manifolds with hyperbolic handlebody complements.
method Capping off spherical and torus boundaries, constructing handlebodies, and applying octahedral decomposition.
result Bounds on volume for some handlebody complements are derived.
We present a simple algorithm for finding eigenmodes of the Laplacian for arbitrary compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We apply our algorithm to a sample of twelve manifolds and generate a list of the lowest eigenvalues. We also display a selection of eigenmodes taken from the Weeks space.
Polynomial bound on surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Bounding the number of surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Using polynomial functions of the volume of the manifold and the Euler characteristic.
result An upper bound for the number of compact essential surfaces is a polynomial function of the volume of the manifold.
The paper contains a new proof that a complete, non-compact hyperbolic 3-manifold M with finite volume contains an immersed, closed, quasi-Fuchsian surface.
New surgeries found in 3D shapes without 2-spheres.
problem Finding non-hyperbolic surgeries in 3-manifolds.
method Combining work on hyperbolic knots and 3-manifolds with observations about surgeries.
result Every 3-manifold with certain properties contains a hyperbolic knot with a non-trivial surgery.
We introduce a generalization of the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants for cusped or compact oriented 3-manifolds. We show that the generalized DW invariants distinguish some pairs of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds with the same hyperbolic volumes and with the same Turaev-Viro invariants. We also present an example of a pair …
This notes explores angle structures on ideally triangulated compact 3-manifolds with high genus boundary. We show that the existence of angle structures implies the existence of a hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary, and conversely each hyperbolic 3-manifold with totally geodesic boundary has an ideal…
3D hyperbolic manifolds map one-to-one to their boundary character varieties.
problem Mapping 3D hyperbolic manifolds to their boundary character varieties.
method Using Bonahon-Schläfli formula and volume rigidity of discrete co-compact representations.
result Peripheral map is a birational isomorphism with its image.
This is an expository paper on Mom-technology, describing the recent work of the authors in this area (found in arXiv:math/0606072, arXiv:0705.4325, and arXiv:0809.0346) concerning the use of Mom-technology to find the minimum-volume compact hyperbolic 3-manifold and the 10 smallest cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In ad…
Compact manifolds with specific cover properties are hyperbolic.
problem Understanding Gromov hyperbolicity in compact manifolds.
method Proving Gromov hyperbolicity through coboundary expansion in residual covers.
result Compact manifolds with certain cover properties have hyperbolic fundamental groups.
Study on length spectrum of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding the length spectrum of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Modeling random hyperbolic 3-manifolds using truncated tetrahedra and analyzing their length spectrum as volume tends to infinity.
result The length spectrum converges in distribution to a Poisson point process with a computable intensity λ as volume increases.
Paper finds new 3D shapes that can be inside a 4D space.
problem Finding new 3D shapes with specific properties.
method Examined arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their homology.
result Discovered infinitely many 3D shapes that are rational homology spheres and can bound geometrically.
The study proves stabilizing of ascending chains in specific groups.
problem Stabilization of ascending chains in bounded rank subgroups of 3-manifold groups.
method Reduction to hyperbolic 3-manifolds and use of geometrization.
result Ascending chains in toral relatively hyperbolic groups stabilize.
Scharlemann and Thompson define a numerical complexity for a 3-manifold using handle decompositions of the manifold. We show that for compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds this is linearly related to a definition of metric complexity in terms of the areas of level sets of Morse functions.
The paper proves a combinatorial Ricci flow converges to hyperbolic structures on certain 3-manifolds.
problem Proving convergence of combinatorial Ricci flow to hyperbolic structures.
method Combinatorial Ricci flow on closed pseudo 3-manifolds with specific edge valences.
result Existence and uniqueness of a complete hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary.
Study counts geodesics on hyperbolic 3-manifolds, proving prime theorems.
problem Counting primitive closed geodesics on compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Proves prime geodesic theorems with symmetric error terms in length and holonomy.
result Effective equidistribution of holonomy and symmetric error terms.
3-manifolds can be virtually dominated by maps of degree 8.
problem Understanding virtual domination of 3-manifolds.
method Proving existence of finite covers with specific map properties.
result Virtual 8-dominance of 3-manifolds.
We prove there exists a compact embedded minimal surface in a complete finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold N. We also obtain a least area, incompressible, properly embedded, finite topology, 2-sided surface. We prove a properly embedded minimal surface of bounded curvature has finite topology. This dete…
We prove that the deformation space AH(M) of marked hyperbolic 3-manifolds homotopy equivalent to a fixed compact 3-manifold M with incompressible boundary is locally connected at minimally parabolic points. Moreover, spaces of Kleinian surface groups are locally connected at quasiconformally rigid points. Similar resu…
Take two isomorphic convex co-compact co-infinite volume Kleinian groups, whose regular sets are diffeomorphic. The quotient of hyperbolic 3-space by these groups gives two hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose scattering operators may be compared. We prove that the operator norm of the difference between the scattering operato…
Combinatorial Ricci flow finds hyperbolic metrics on 3-manifolds.
problem Finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped 3-manifolds.
method Analogue of surface and compact 3-manifold flows, minimizing co-volume, extending through singularities.
result Existence of complete hyperbolic metric is equivalent to flow convergence.
New hyperbolic 3-pseudomanifolds with unique properties.
problem Understanding cubulable groups in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Constructing compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with specific boundary conditions.
result Found groups that are word hyperbolic but not cubulable.
Study angle structures on pseudo 3-manifolds, proving existence for some cases.
problem Determining if hyperbolic 3-manifolds can have angle structures.
method Examined triangulated pseudo 3-manifolds with area-curvature angle structures, establishing sufficient and necessary conditions.
result Compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary can have angle structures.
In this note, we show that there exist cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds that embed geodesically, but cannot bound geometrically. Thus, being a geometric boundary is a non-trivial property for such manifolds. Our result complements the work by Long and Reid on geometric boundaries of compact hyperbolic 4-manifolds, and…
Study on systole of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds, proving limit exists and calculating it.
problem Understanding the systole of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Modeling random hyperbolic 3-manifolds using truncated tetrahedra, calculating expected systole limit as volume increases.
result Closed formula and numerical approximation for the limit of the expected systole as volume tends to infinity.
Upper bound established for the length of shortest closed geodesics in hyperbolic link complements.
problem Finding bounds on the length of shortest closed geodesics in hyperbolic link complements.
method Established an upper bound for the length of an nth shortest closed geodesic as a logarithmic function of the volume of the manifold.
result An upper bound of the length of an nth shortest closed geodesic is established as a logarithmic function of the volume of the manifold.
Generalizes fully augmented links to doubled 3-manifolds with geometric bounds.
problem Understanding the geometry of fully augmented links in doubled 3-manifolds.
method Constructing fully augmented links on the reflection surface of doubled 3-manifolds and finding bounds on cusp shapes and volumes.
result Bounds on cusp shapes and volumes of hyperbolic links in doubled 3-manifolds.
Paper shows hyperbolic 3-manifolds can sound the same but have different cohomology.
problem Cannot determine rational cohomology ring from sound of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Implemented computer program to find nullity of cup product map.
result Example of strongly isospectral hyperbolic 3-manifolds with nonisomorphic rational cohomology rings.