Notes on Tameness

DOI10.4171/LEM/56-3-2MaRDI QIDQ536444zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. H. Bowditch

Publication date 18 May 2011

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/lem/56-3-2

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic 3-manifoldinterior of a compact manifold with boundarypinched negative curvaturetameness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Neighborhoods of submanifolds (57N40)

Review text

The following theorem is generally referred to as the ``Tameness Theorem. Let \(M\) be a complete hyperbolic 3-manifold with \(\pi_1(M)\) finitely generated. Then \(M\) is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary. This was proven in the ``indecomposable case by \textit{F. Bonahon} [Ann. Math. (2) 124, 71--158 (1986; Zbl 0671.57008)] and in general independently by \textit{I. Agol} [Tameness and hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Preprint, Chicago (2004)] and \textit{D. Calegari} and \textit{D. Gabai} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 19, No.~2, 385-446 (2006; Zbl 1090.57010)]. The paper under review is about a general version of the ``Tameness Theorem and Ahlfors' finiteness theorem which the author presents in the following form. Let \(M\) be a non-elementary (this means \(\pi_1(M)\) is not trivial, \(\mathbb{Z}\) or \(\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}\)) complete hyperbolic 3-manifold with \(\pi_1(M)\) finitely generated. Let \(t> 0\), and let \(F_t\) be the boundary of the \(t\)-neighbourhood of the convex core of \(M\). Then \(F_t\) has finite area. Here by ``convex core of \(M\) the author understands essentially (it means not degenerate to a totally geodesic surface) the unique smallest submanifold which carries the whole of \(\pi_1(M)\) and has convex boundary. Moreover the metric \(t\)-neighbourhood of the convex core is a \(C^1\)-submanifold. \(F_t\) is the boundary of this neighbourhood and it is an embedded \(C^1\)-surface (possible empty or disconnected). The above mentioned generalization is the following. Let \(M\) be a complete Riemannian 3-manifold of pinched negative curvature with \(\pi_1(M)\) finitely generated. Then, 1. \(M\) is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary; 2. \(F_t\) has finite area. The paper has 8 chapters. Let us present their titles from the second to the eighth: Topological constructions; Polyhedral constructions; The wrapping construction; Proof of tameness when there are no cusps; Tameness with cusps; Variable curvature; Ahlfors' finiteness theorem.

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