Compressing totally geodesic surfaces

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(01)00029-3MaRDI QIDQ5957284zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher J. Leininger

Publication date 24 July 2002

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011113

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic manifoldsDehn fillingimmersed surfacessurgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In this paper we prove that one can find surgeries arbitrarily close to infinity in the Dehn surgery space of the figure eight knot complement for which some immersed totally geodesic surface compresses.

Review text

Given a hyperbolic 3-manifold, an immersed surface is called totally geodesic if it can be realized by an immersion which is locally totally geodesic. When the hyperbolic manifold is the interior of a compact one with boundary a torus (i.e. it has a single end which is a cusp), then one can do Dehn filling. Likely, after Dehn filling a totally geodesic immersed surface will not be totally geodesic any more, but one can still ask if it is incompressible (i.e. if its fundamental group injects). The paper under review proves that on the figure eight knot exterior there are infinitely many different Dehn fillings with the following property: the figure eight knot exterior contains (infinitely many) closed immersed totally geodesic surfaces that compress after this Dehn filling. The author uses the arithmeticity of the figure eight knot exterior to construct explicit families of Fuchsian subgroups, that give the totally geodesic surfaces. Moreover, those surfaces are not commensurable (i.e. do not have a common finite covering).

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