arXiv research

Random hyperbolic 3-manifolds can be obtained via Dehn surgery.

Study on length spectrum of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

We show that for any integers k and g, with g at least two, there are infinitely many closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds which are integral homology spheres with Casson invariant k, and Heegaard genus equal to g. This existence result is shown using random methods, using a model of random 3-manifolds arising from random wal…

Study on systole of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds, proving limit exists and calculating it.

We show that a random 3-manifold with positive first Betti number admits a tower of cyclic covers with exponential torsion growth.

We provide two constructions of hyperbolic metrics on 3-manifolds with Heegaard splittings that satisfy certain topological conditions, which both apply to random Heegaard splittings with asymptotic probability 1. These constructions provide a lot of control on the resulting metric, allowing us to prove various results…

Study on random surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, focusing on geometric and topological properties.

A 3-manifold is Haken if it contains a topologically essential surface. The Virtual Haken Conjecture posits that every irreducible 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover which is Haken. In this paper, we study random 3-manifolds and their finite covers in an attempt to shed light on this difficul…

We consider the SO(3) Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev quantum invariants of random 3-manifolds. When the level r is prime, we show that the asymptotic distribution of the absolute value of these invariants is given by the standard Rayleigh distribution and independent of the choice of level. Hence the probability that the qu…

The study explores finite quotients of 3-manifold groups and their existence and non-existence.

We show that for every $g\geq 2$ there exists a number $c(g)>0$ such that the smallest positive eigenvalue of a random closed 3-manifold $M$ of Heegaard genus $g$ is at most $c(g)/{\rm vol}(M)^2$.

A random group contains many subgroups which are isomorphic to the fundamental group of a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with totally geodesic boundary. These subgroups can be taken to be quasi-isometrically embedded. This is true both in the few relators model, and the density model of random groups (at any density les…

We address the question: how common is it for a 3-manifold to fiber over the circle? One motivation for considering this is to give insight into the fairly inscrutable Virtual Fibration Conjecture. For the special class of 3-manifolds with tunnel number one, we provide compelling theoretical and experimental evidence t…

In this paper we study the manifolds in the census of "small" 3-manifolds as available in SnapPy. We compare our results with the statistics of random 3-manifolds obtained using the Dunfield Thurston and Rivin models.

Random 3-manifolds have no totally geodesic submanifolds.

We prove a law of large numbers for the volumes of families of random hyperbolic mapping tori and Heegaard splittings providing a sharp answer to a conjecture of Dunfield and Thurston.

A result of Malyutin shows that a random walk on the mapping class group gives rise to an element whose fractional Dehn twist coefficient is large or small enough. We show that this leads to several properties of random 3-manifolds and links. For example, random closed braids and open books are hyperbolic.

We show that gamma distributions provide models for departures from randomness since every neighbourhood of an exponential distribution contains a neighbourhood of gamma distributions, using an information theoretic metric topology. We derive also the information geometry of the 3-manifold of McKay bivariate gamma dist…

We obtain a description of Poisson--Furstenberg boundaries for (random walks on) fundamental groups of compact graph-manifolds. Together with previously known results due to V.A. Kaimanovich and others, this allows one to obtain descriptions of Poisson--Furstenberg boundaries for fundamental groups of all closed 3-mani…

New model for links uses meander diagrams and combinatorics.

A random Heegaard splitting is a 3-manifold obtained by using a random walk of length n on the mapping class group as the gluing map between two handlebodies. We show that the joint distribution of random walks of length n and their inverses is asymptotically independent, and converges to the product of the harmonic an…

The study proves nearly geodesic surfaces are filling in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

We study the smallest positive eigenvalue $λ_1(M)$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ which fibers over the circle, with fiber a closed surface of genus $g\geq 2$. We show the existence of a constant $C>0$ only depending on $g$ so that $λ_1(M)\in [C^{-1}/{\rm vol}(M)^2, C\log {\rm vo…

The paper examines random walks on metric spaces and finds commensurable subgroups.

Randomly glued tetrahedra form connected 3-manifolds with a single boundary.

The Cannon-Thurston map's measures become singular with respect to sphere measures.

We study random elements of subgroups (and cosets) of the mapping class group of a closed hyperbolic surface, in part through the properties of their mapping tori. In particular, we study the distribution of the homology of the mapping torus (with rational, integer, and finite field coefficients, the hyperbolic volume …

The Cannon-Thurston map's pushed measures on the circle are singular with respect to sphere measures.

The paper computes special values of combinatorial zeta functions to reveal topological properties of manifolds.

Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy are ideal experiments for discovering the non-trivial global topology of the universe. To evaluate the CMB anisotropy in multiply-connected compact cosmological models, one needs to compute the eigenmodes of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Using the direct bou…

The main result is the construction of ergodic transversal measures of full support on the space of all k-surfaces of a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold. This space is a laminated space, each of its leaf being identified with a "complete" k-surface, i.e. a surface of constant (extrinsic) curvature k, where k belongs to ]0…

A universal branched 3-manifold $W$ characterizes Sol 3-manifolds.

We prove a finiteness result for the $\partial$-patterned guts decomposition of all 3-manifolds obtained by splitting a given orientable, irreducible and $\partial$-irreducible 3-manifold along a closed incompressible surface. Then using the Thurston norm, we deduce that the JSJ-pieces of all 3-manifolds dominated by a…

Researchers found the minimum number of tetrahedra needed to triangulate elliptic and sol 3-manifolds.

Study of $η$-Ricci solitons on Kenmotsu 3-manifolds.

3-manifolds are CR uniformized on spheres, proving a conjecture.

Classifies 3-manifolds from simplified (2,0)-trisections of 4-manifolds.

In this paper, we proved that any closed orientable 3-manifold 1-dominates at most finitely many geometric 3-manifolds.

Classifies 3-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.

Survey article on multibranched surfaces in 3-manifolds.

Study describes prosoluble subgroups in 3-manifold groups.

Survey on L^2-invariants for 3-manifolds.

Matveev introduced Borromean surgery on 3-manifolds, and proved that the equivalence relation on closed, oriented 3-manifolds generated by Borromean surgeries is characterized by the first homology group and the torsion linking pairing. Massuyeau generalized this result to closed, spin 3-manifolds, and the second autho…

The paper studies entropy in branched covers of 3-manifolds.

Method samples triangulations of manifolds using biased random walks.

Virtual $3$-manifolds were introduced by S.V. Matveev in 2009 as natural generalizations of the classical $3$-manifolds. In this paper, we introduce a notion of complexity of a virtual $3$-manifold. We investigate the values of the complexity for virtual 3-manifolds presented by special polyhedra with one or two $2$-co…

Classifies low-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a maximal cusp.

Study series invariants for plumbed 3-manifolds and their properties.