Dehn filling and the geometry of unknotting tunnels

DOI10.2140/GT.2013.17.1815zbMATH Open1277.57009OpenAlexW3100817747MaRDI QIDQ357729FDOQ357729

Authors Daryl Cooper, David Futer, Jessica S. Purcell 

Publication date 13 August 2013

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3461

zbMATH Keywords

geodesiclengthcanonical decompositionDehn fillinghyperbolic \(3\)-manifoldunknotting tunnel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

Abstract: Any one-cusped hyperbolic manifold M with an unknotting tunnel tau is obtained by Dehn filling a cusp of a two-cusped hyperbolic manifold. In the case where M is obtained by "generic" Dehn filling, we prove that tau is isotopic to a geodesic, and characterize whether tau is isotopic to an edge in the canonical decomposition of M. We also give explicit estimates (with additive error only) on the length of tau relative to a maximal cusp. These results give generic answers to three long-standing questions posed by Adams, Sakuma, and Weeks. We also construct an explicit sequence of one-tunnel knots in S^3, all of whose unknotting tunnels have length approaching infinity.

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Uses Software

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