The infimum of the dual volume of convex cocompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Q6182526)

Let \(M\) be a complete convex cocompact hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold and let \(CM\) be its convex core. Schlenker introduced the notion of dual volume \(V^{*}_{C}(M)\) of the convex core, which can be computed as \(V_{C}(M)-\frac{1}{2}\ell_{m}(\mu)\), where \(V_{C}(M)\) stands for the usual Riemannian volume of the convex core and \(\ell_{m}(\mu)\) denotes the length of the bending measured lamination \(\mu\) with respect to the hyperbolic metric \(m\) of the boundary of the convex core of \(M\). The paper studies \(V_{C}^{*}(M)\) as a function over the space of quasi-isometric deformations of a given convex cocompact \(3\)-manifold \(M\) with incompressible boundary. The author shows that the infimum of the dual volume coincides with the infimum of the Riemannian volume of the convex core. This result can be seen as the dual volume counterpart of a similar theorem proved by \textit{M. Bridgeman} et al. [Duke Math. J. 168, No. 5, 867--896 (2019; Zbl 1420.32007)], who showed that the infimum of the renormalized volume over all quasi-isometric deformations of a given convex cocompact \(3\)-manifold \(M\) with incompressible boundary coinced with the infimum of the Riemannian volume of the convex core.