Cannon-Thurston maps for pared manifolds of bounded geometry (Q1006125)

The author uses the following terminology: A pared manifold is a pair \((M,P)\) where \(M\) is a \(3\)-manifold with boundary and \(P\) is a (possibly empty) \(2\)-dimensional submanifold with boundary of \(\partial M\) such that: {\parindent=5mm \begin{itemize}\item[1)] the fundamental group of each component of \(P\) injects into the fundamental group of \(M\) and it contains an abelian subgroup of finite index; \item[2)] any cylinder \(C:(S^1\times I,\partial(S^1\times I))\to (M,P)\) with \(C_*:\pi_1(S^1\times I)\to \pi_1(M)\) injective is homotopic rel. boundary to \(P\); \item[3)] \(P\) contains every component of \(\partial M\) which has an abelian subgroup of finite index. \end{itemize}} The definition is due to Thurston. A pared manifold \((M,P)\) is said to have incompressible boundary if each component of \(M\setminus P\) is incompressible in \(M\). A manifold \(M\) equipped with a metric is said to have bounded geometry if in a complement of the cusps the injectivity radius is bounded below by some positive number. The main result of the paper is the following Theorem: Let \(N^h\) be a hyperbolic structure of bounded geometry on a pared manifold \((M,P)\) with incompressible boundary \(\partial_0M=(\partial M-P)\) and let \(M_{gf}\) be a geometrically finite hyperbolic structure adapted to \((M,P)\). Then the map \(i:\widetilde{M_{gf}}\to \widetilde{N^h}\) between the universal covers extends continuously to a map between the Gromov boundaries \(\widehat{M_{gf}}\to\widehat{N^h}\). Furthermore, the limit set of \(\widetilde{M}\) is locally connected. This extension map between the boundaries is an example of a Cannon-Thurston map. The result of this paper is one of several results by the author on similar problems of existence of Cannon-Thurston maps, written in a series of papers.