Dehn filling of the ``magic'' 3-manifold (Q874818): Difference between revisions

The manifold of the paper's title is the complement \(N\) of the chain link of \(3\)-components in \(S^3\). Among three-cusped hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds, it is the only one that can be constructed using six ideal tetrahedra, and conjecturally is of smallest volume. Its nickname, signifying the rich variety of manifolds resulting from Dehn fillings of \(N\), was originally bestowed by [\textit{C. McA. Gordon}, Hass, Joel (ed.) et al., Proceedings of the Kirbyfest, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 22--26, 1998. Warwick: University of Warwick, Institute of Mathematics, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 2, 177--199 (1999; Zbl 0948.57014)], [\textit{C. McA. Gordon} and \textit{Y.-Q. Wu}, Topology 39, No. 3, 531--548 (2000; Zbl 0944.57014)]. The paper under review provides an extensive analysis of the Dehn fillings of one, two, or all three cusps of \(N\), including a complete classification of the exceptional filling slopes (those that give non-hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds). To identify the manifolds produced by the exceptional fillings of \(N\), the authors use a spine of \(N\) to work out spines of the resulting manifolds. To complete the classification, all other fillings are proven to be negatively curved using the Gromov-Thurston \(2\pi\)-theorem, then hyperbolic using the orbifold theorem. Among their applications, the authors show that of the 67 hyperbolic manifolds of Matveev complexity at most~\(4\), at least 60 and no more than 63 occur as fillings of~\(N\). The manifolds resulting from filling two cusps of \(N\) include for every \(n\) a hyperbolic link complement in \(S^3\) whose set of exceptional slopes is \(\{n, n+1, n+2, n+3\}\), with the \(n\)- and \((n+3)\)-fillings producing toroidal manifolds and the \((n+1)\)- and \((n+2)\)-fillings producing small Seifert-fibered manifolds. In fact the fillings of \(N\) include many examples of pairs of exceptional slopes yielding various types of nonhyperbolic manifolds, for instance annular and toroidal, that realize the known or conjectured maximal geometric intersection of such pairs. Finally, the authors examine fillings that contain inequivalent knots with homeomorphic complements. These include most of the known examples, such as a pair of knots in the lens space \(L(49,18)\) discovered by [\textit{S. Bleiler, C. D. Hodgson,} and \textit{J. R. Weeks}, Hass, Joel (ed.) et al., Proceedings of the Kirbyfest, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 22--26, 1998. Warwick: University of Warwick, Institute of Mathematics, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 2, 23--34 (1999; Zbl 0948.57017)] and some (probably) new examples, such as a pair in a hyperbolic link complement. The paper is well organized and written with great precision.