Self-bumping of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Q1609809)

Let \(N\) be a hyperbolic 3-manifold and \(B\) a component of the interior of the deformation space of isometry classes of marked, complete hyperbolic 3-manifolds homotopy equivalent to \(N\). In the present paper, topological conditions are given on \(N\) implying the existence of an element \(\rho\) of the closure of \(B\) such that the intersection of every sufficiently small neighbourhood of \(\rho\) with \(B\) is disconnected (that is, the component ``self-bumps''). In particular, the closure of \(B\) is not a manifold with boundary. In a previous work, \textit{J. W. Anderson}, \textit{R. E. Canary} and \textit{D. McCullough} [Ann. Math. (2) 152, 693-741 (2000; Zbl 0976.57016)] gave necessary and sufficient conditions for two components of the interior of the deformation space to ``bump'' (that is, to have intersecting closures).