Two-sided bounds for the complexity of hyperbolic three-manifolds with geodesic boundary (Q2514583)

A new way of constructing hyperbolic three-manifolds with geodesic boundary is introduced. The manifolds, \(M_{n,k}^d\), are generalizations of the Thurston and Paoluzzi-Zimmermann ones. Each manifold is constructed from a polyhedron by giving side parings and justifying hyperbolicity. The authors give the lower and upper bounds of the complexity of \(M_{n,k}^d\). For each \(M_{n,k}^d\), the lower bound comes from the Euler characteristic and the upper bound comes from construction of a special spine with \(n\) true vertices. The authors also provide a volume formula for \(M_{n,k}^d\) and compute a few ones. For \(M_{n,k}^3\), the \(\varepsilon\)-invariant is computed.