Geodesic knots in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds

We consider the existence of simple closed geodesics or “geodesic knots” in finite volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Every such manifold contains at least one geodesic knot by results of Adams, Hass and Scott in (Adams et al. Bull. London Math. Soc. 31: 81–86, 1999). In (Kuhlmann Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6: 2151–2162, 2006) we showed that every cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold in fact contains infinitely many geodesic knots. In this paper we consider the closed manifold case, and show that if a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold satisfies certain geometric and arithmetic conditions, then it contains infinitely many geodesic knots. The conditions on the manifold can be checked computationally, and have been verified for many manifolds in the Hodgson-Weeks census of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Our proof is constructive, and the infinite family of geodesic knots spiral around a short simple closed geodesic in the manifold.      

Parametrizing Shimura subvarieties of {\mathrm{A}_1} Shimura varieties and related geometric problems

This paper gives a complete parametrization of the commensurability classes of totally geodesic subspaces of irreducible arithmetic quotients of \({X_{a, b} = (\mathbf{H}^2)^a\times (\mathbf{H}^3)^b}\). A special case describes all Shimura subvarieties of type \({\mathrm{A}_1}\) Shimura varieties. We produce, for any \({n\geq 1}\), examples of manifolds/Shimura varieties with precisely n commensurability classes of totally geodesic submanifolds/Shimura subvarieties. This is in stark contrast with the previously studied cases of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds and quaternionic Shimura surfaces, where the presence of one commensurability class of geodesic submanifolds implies the existence of infinitely many classes.     

Estimating Matveev's complexity via crystallization theory

In [M.R. Casali, Computing Matveev's complexity of non-orientable 3-manifolds via crystallization theory, Topology Appl. 144(1-3) (2004) 201-209], a graph-theoretical approach to Matveev's complexity computation is introduced, yielding the complete classification of closed non-orientable 3-manifolds up to complexity six. The present paper follows the same point-of view, making use of crystallization theory and related results (see [M. Ferri, Crystallisations of 2-fold branched coverings of S³, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 73 (1979) 271-276; M.R. Casali, Coloured knots and coloured graphs representing 3-fold simple coverings of S³, Discrete Math. 137 (1995) 87-98; M.R. Casali, From framed links to crystallizations of bounded 4-manifolds, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 9(4) (2000) 443-458]) in order to significantly improve existing estimations for complexity of both 2-fold and three-fold simple branched coverings (see [O.M. Davydov, The complexity of 2-fold branched coverings of a 3-sphere, Acta Appl. Math. 75 (2003) 51-54] and [O.M. Davydov, Estimating complexity of 3-manifolds as of branched coverings, talk-abstract, Second Russian-German Geometry Meeting dedicated to 90-anniversary of A.D.Alexandrov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 2002]) and 3-manifolds seen as Dehn surgery (see [G. Amendola, An algorithm producing a standard spine of a 3-manifold presented by surgery along a link, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 51 (2002) 179-198]).     

Construction of pseudo-isometries for treelike hyperbolic 3-manifolds of infinite volume

We introduce a family of rigid hyperbolic 3-manifolds of infinite volume with possibly infinitely many ends: the treelike manifolds. These manifolds generalize a family of constructive non compact surfaces – the equational surfaces – for which the homeomorphism problem is decidable. The proof of rigidity relies firstly on Thurston's theorem of compactness of the Teichmüller space of acylindrical compact 3-manifolds, and secondly, on Sullivan's rigidity theorem. To cite this article: O. Ly, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 337 (2003).     

Bundles, Handcuffs, and Local Freedom

We answer a question of J. Anderson's by producing infinitely many commensurability classes of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups contain subgroups that are locally free and not free. These manifolds are obtained by performing 0–surgery on a collection of knots with the same properties.     

Normal surfaces as combinatorial slicings

We investigate slicings of combinatorial manifolds as properly embedded co-dimension 1 submanifolds. Focus is given to the case of dimension 3, where slicings are (discrete) normal surfaces. For the cases of 2-neighborly 3-manifolds as well as quadrangulated slicings, lower bounds on the number of quadrilaterals of slicings depending on its genus g are presented. These are shown to be sharp for infinitely many values of g. Furthermore, we classify slicings of combinatorial 3-manifolds which are weakly neighborly polyhedral maps.     

Complexity of 3-orbifolds

We extend Matveev's theory of complexity for 3-manifolds, based on simple spines, to (closed, orientable, locally orientable) 3-orbifolds. We prove naturality and finiteness for irreducible 3-orbifolds, and, with certain restrictions and subtleties, additivity under orbifold connected sum. We also develop the theory of handle decompositions for 3-orbifolds and the corresponding theory of normal 2-suborbifolds.     

Bounded gaps between primes and the length spectra of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-orbifolds

In 1992, Reid asked whether hyperbolic 3-manifolds with the same geodesic length spectra are necessarily commensurable. While this is known to be true for arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds, the non-arithmetic case is still open. Building towards a negative answer to this question, Futer and Millichap recently constructed infinitely many pairs of non-commensurable, non-arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds which have the same volume and whose length spectra begin with the same first m geodesic lengths. In the present paper, we show that this phenomenon is surprisingly common in the arithmetic setting. In particular, given any arithmetic hyperbolic 3-orbifold derived from a quaternion algebra, any finite subset S of its geodesic length spectrum, and any $k\ge 2$, we produce infinitely many k-tuples of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-orbifolds which are pairwise non-commensurable, have geodesic length spectra containing S, and have volumes lying in an interval of (universally) bounded length. The main technical ingredient in our proof is a bounded gaps result for prime ideals in number fields lying in Chebotarev sets which extends recent work of Thorner.     

The Chern-Simons Invariants of Hyperbolic Manifolds Via Covering Spaces

One important invariant of a closed Riemannian 3-manifold isthe Chern–Simons invariant [1]. The concept was generalizedto hyperbolic 3-manifolds with cusps in [11], and to geometric(spherical, euclidean or hyperbolic) 3-orbifolds, as particularcases of geometric cone-manifolds, in [7]. In this paper, westudy the behaviour of this generalized invariant under changeof orientation, and we give a method to compute it for hyperbolic3-manifolds using virtually regular coverings [10]. We confineourselves to virtually regular coverings because a coveringof a geometric orbifold is a geometric manifold if and onlyif the covering is a virtually regular covering of the underlyingspace of the orbifold, branched over the singular locus. Thereforeour work is the most general for the applications in mind; namely,computing volumes and Chern–Simons invariants of hyperbolicmanifolds, using the computations for cone-manifolds for whicha convenient Schläfli formula holds (see [7]). Among otherresults, we prove that every hyperbolic manifold obtained asa virtually regular covering of a figure-eight knot hyperbolicorbifold has rational Chern–Simons invariant. We giveexplicit examples with computations of volumes and Chern–Simonsinvariants for some hyperbolic 3-manifolds, to show the efficiencyof our method. We also give examples of different hyperbolicmanifolds with the same volume, whose Chern–Simons invariants(mod ) differ by a rational number, as well as pairs of differenthyperbolic manifolds with the same volume and the same Chern–Simonsinvariant (mod ). (Examples of this type were also obtainedin [12] and [9], but using mutation and surgery techniques,respectively, instead of coverings as we do here.) 1991 MathematicsSubject Classification 57M50, 51M10, 51M25.     

The Stability Inequality for Ricci-Flat Cones

In this article, we thoroughly investigate the stability inequality for Ricci-flat cones. Perhaps most importantly, we prove that the Ricci-flat cone over ?P ² is stable, showing that the first stable non-flat Ricci-flat cone occurs in the smallest possible dimension. On the other hand, we prove that many other examples of Ricci-flat cones over 4-manifolds are unstable, and that Ricci-flat cones over products of Einstein manifolds and over Kähler–Einstein manifolds with h ^1,1>1 are unstable in dimension less than 10. As results of independent interest, our computations indicate that the Page metric and the Chen–LeBrun–Weber metric are unstable Ricci shrinkers. As a final bonus, we give plenty of motivations, and partly confirm a conjecture of Tom Ilmanen relating the λ-functional, the positive mass theorem, and the nonuniqueness of Ricci flow with conical initial data.     

Hyperbolic 3-manifolds as cyclic branched coverings

There is an extensive literature on the characterization of knots in the 3-sphere which have the same 3-manifold as a common n-fold cyclic branched covering, for some integer . In the present paper, we study the following more general situation. Given two integers m and n, how are knots K ₁ and K ₂ related such that the m-fold cyclic branched covering of K ₁ coincides with the n-fold cyclic branched covering of K ₂. Or, seen from the point of view of 3-manifolds: in how many different ways can a given 3-manifold occur as a cyclic branched covering of knots in S ³. Under certain hypotheses, we solve this problem for the basic class of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and hyperbolic knots (the other basic class is that of Seifert fiber spaces resp. of torus and Montesinos knots for which the situation is well understood; the general case can then be analyzed using the equivariant sphere and torus decomposition into Seifert fiber spaces and hyperbolic manifolds). Received: December 7, 1999; revised version: May 22, 2000     

Heegaard splittings of twisted torus knots

Little is known on the classification of Heegaard splittings for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Although Kobayashi gave a complete classification of Heegaard splittings for the exteriors of 2-bridge knots, our knowledge of other classes is extremely limited. In particular, there are very few hyperbolic manifolds that are known to have a unique minimal genus splitting. Here we demonstrate that an infinite class of hyperbolic knot exteriors, namely exteriors of certain “twisted torus knots” originally studied by Morimoto, Sakuma and Yokota, have a unique minimal genus Heegaard splitting of genus two. We also conjecture that these manifolds possess irreducible yet weakly reducible splittings of genus three. There are no known examples of such Heegaard splittings.     

On a class of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and groups with one defining relation

We construct compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary, arbitrarily many of the same volume. The fundamental groups of these 3-manifolds are groups with one defining relation. Our main result is a classification of these manifolds up to homeomorphism, resp. isometry.     

Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary: Enumeration and volume calculation

We describe a natural strategy to enumerate compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary in increasing order of complexity. We show that the same strategy can be applied in order to analyze simultaneously compact manifolds and finite-volume manifolds with toric cusps. In contrast, we show that if one allows annular cusps, the number of manifolds grows very rapidly and our strategy cannot be employed to obtain a complete list. We also carefully describe how to compute the volume of our manifolds, discussing formulas for the volume of a tetrahedron with generic dihedral angles in hyperbolic space.     

Asymptotically cylindrical 7-manifolds of holonomy <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript> with applications to compact irreducible <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>-manifolds

We construct examples of exponentially asymptotically cylindrical (EAC) Riemannian 7-manifolds with holonomy group equal to G ₂. To our knowledge, these are the first such examples. We also obtain EAC coassociative calibrated submanifolds. Finally, we apply our results to show that one of the compact G ₂-manifolds constructed by Joyce by desingularisation of a flat orbifold T ⁷/Γ can be deformed to give one of the compact G ₂-manifolds obtainable as a generalized connected sum of two EAC SU(3)-manifolds via the method of Kovalev (J Reine Angew Math 565:125–160, 2003).     

On medial links and hyperbolic 3-manifolds with large isometry groups

Starting from the regular Platonic solids we construct links, generalizing the Borromean rings, with few components but large finite symmetry groups. We consider the 3-manifolds obtained by equivariant surgeries on these links, most of them hyperbolic, and the quotient orbifolds obtained from these group actions, among them various of the smallest known hyperbolic 3-orbifolds. Also, various of the manifolds obtained by equivariant surgery on these links are maximally symmetric hyperbolic 3-manifolds.     

3-manifolds which are orbit spaces of diffeomorphisms

In a very general setting, we show that a 3-manifold obtained as the orbit space of the basin of a topological attractor is either S²×S¹ or irreducible.We then study in more detail the topology of a class of 3-manifolds which are also orbit spaces and arise as invariants of gradient-like diffeomorphisms (in dimension 3). Up to a finite number of exceptions, which we explicitly describe, all these manifolds are Haken and, by changing the diffeomorphism by a finite power, all the Seifert components of the Jaco-Shalen-Johannson decomposition of these manifolds are made into product circle bundles.     

Finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds that share a fundamental polyhedron

It is known that the volume function for hyperbolic manifolds of dimension 3 is finite-to-one. We show that the number of nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds with the same volume can be made arbitrarily large. This is done by constructing a sequence of finite-sided finite-volume polyhedra with side-pairings that yield manifolds. In fact, we show that arbitrarily many nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds may share a fundamental polyhedron. As a by-product of our examples, we also show in a constructive way that the set of volumes of hyperbolic 4-manifolds contains the set of even integral multiples of 4π²/3. This is “half” the set of possible values for volumes, which is the integral multiples of 4π²/3 due to the Gauss-Bonnet formula Vol(M) = 4π²/3 · χ(M).