Cusp shapes under cone deformation (Q998661)

The author applies both the results and the techniques of the Hodgson-Kerckhoff deformation theory for 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds to study ``Cusp shape under cone deformation''. (See [\textit{C. D. Hodgson and S. P. Kerckhoff}, J. Differ. Geom. 48, No.~1, 1--59 (1998; Zbl 0919.57009) and Ann. Math. (2) 162, No.~1, 367--421 (2005; Zbl 1087.57011)].) From the author's abstract: ``A horospherical torus about a cusp of a hyperbolic manifold inherits a Euclidean similarity structure, called a cusp shape. We bound the change in cusp shape when the hyperbolic structure of the manifold is deformed via cone deformation preserving the cusp. The bounds are in terms of the change in structure in a neighborhood of the singular locus alone.'' The author then shows, by a series of explicit arguments in hyperbolic geometry, that the results apply to large classes of knot complements in the 3-sphere provided the projection diagrams of the knots are sufficiently complicated. The technique is to show that the knot complement arises from a hyperbolic link complement by Dehn surgery, where the hyperbolic structure on the link complement is explicitly known. The results typically give bounds on areas and heights of hyperbolic cusps in the hyperbolic geometric structure on the knot. The results give new techniques for connecting hyperbolic geometric invariants with topological knot descriptions.