Complexity of 3-manifolds obtained by Dehn filling

arXiv2207.12066MaRDI QIDQ6405930FDOQ6405930

Authors: William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, Jonathan Spreer, Stephan Tillmann 

Publication date: 25 July 2022

Abstract: Let $M$ be a compact 3--manifold with boundary a single torus. We present upper and lower complexity bounds for closed 3--manifolds obtained as even Dehn fillings of $M.$ As an application, we characterise some infinite families of even Dehn fillings of $M$ for which our method determines the complexity of its members up to an additive constant. The constant only depends on the size of a chosen triangulation of $M$, and the isotopy class of its boundary. We then show that, given a triangulation $mathcalT$ of $M$ with $2$--triangle torus boundary, there exist infinite families of even Dehn fillings of $M$ for which we can determine the complexity of the filled manifolds with a gap between upper and lower bound of at most $13|mathcalT|+7.$ This result is bootstrapped to obtain the gap as a function of the size of an ideal triangulation of the interior of $M$, or the number of crossings of a knot diagram. We also show how to compute the gap for explicit families of fillings of knot complements in the three-sphere. The practicability of our approach is demonstrated by determining the complexity up to a gap of at most 10 for several infinite families of even fillings of the figure eight knot, the pretzel knot $P(-2,3,7)$, and the trefoil.

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