Closed essential surfaces in hyperbolizable acylindrical 3-manifolds (Q1392495): Difference between revisions

It is shown in this paper that a hyperbolic 3-manifold \(M\) with non-empty boundary contains a singular, closed and essential surface provided \(M\) has no essential annulus, and provided every boundary component of \(M\) has genus at least two. Every such 3-manifold has a non-separating incompressible surface \(S\) with boundary and the idea for constructing the singular surface from the theorem is to combine the inclusion \(S\to M\) with appropriate finite covering maps of the boundary components. In order to find the right covering maps the author refers to the Klein-Maskit combination theorem [\textit{B. Maskit}, Kleinian groups, Grundlehren Math. Wiss. 287 (1988; Zbl 0627.30039)] and to the theorem [\textit{P. Scott}, J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 17, 555-565 (1978; Zbl 0412.57006)] that subgroups of surface groups are almost geometric. The author also mentions that in a recent preprint of Cooper, Long and Reid a stronger result is proven, using different methods.