Pants immersed in hyperbolic 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2009.241.201zbMATH Open1178.57017arXiv0802.2575OpenAlexW2024016950MaRDI QIDQ2270613FDOQ2270613

Ian Agol

Publication date: 28 July 2009

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that an immersed thrice-punctured sphere in a cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold is either embedded or has a single clasp in a manifold obtained by hyperbolic Dehn filling on a cusp of the Whitehead link complement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2575

zbMATH Keywords

immersionWhitehead linkpantsthrice-punctured sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

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