Totally geodesic surfaces in twist knot complements

DOI10.2140/PJM.2022.319.153arXiv2009.04637MaRDI QIDQ6348796FDOQ6348796

Authors: Khanh Le, Rebekah Palmer 

Publication date: 9 September 2020

Abstract: In this article, we give explicit examples of infinitely many non-commensurable (non-arithmetic) hyperbolic $3$-manifolds admitting exactly $k$ totally geodesic surfaces for any positive integer $k$, answering a question of Bader, Fisher, Miller and Stover. The construction comes from a family of twist knot complements and their dihedral covers. The case $k=1$ arises from the uniqueness of an immersed totally geodesic thrice-punctured sphere, answering a question of Reid. Applying the proof techniques of the main result, we explicitly construct non-elementary maximal Fuchsian subgroups of infinite covolume within twist knot groups, and we also show that no twist knot complement with odd prime half twists is right-angled in the sense of Champanerkar, Kofman, and Purcell.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32)

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