Homology of curves and surfaces in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-3167744MaRDI QIDQ903928zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi Liu, Vladimir Markovic

Publication date 15 January 2016

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7418, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1445865571, https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20151201-095003953

zbMATH Keywords

homologyhyperbolic three-manifoldquasi-Fuchsian subsurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

Abstract: Among other things, we prove the following two topologcal statements about closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. First, every rational second homology class of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has a positve integral multiple represented by an oriented connected closed $p{i}_1$-injectively immersed quasi-Fuchsian subsurface. Second, every rationally null-homologous, $p{i}_1$-injectively immersed oriented closed 1-submanifold in a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has an equidegree finite cover which bounds an oriented compact $p{i}_1$-injective immersed quasi-Fuchsian subsurface. In part, we exploit techniques developed earlier by Kahn and Markovic about good pants constructions, but we only distill geometric and topological ingredients from their papers so no hard analysis is involved in this paper.

Review text

Integral homology classes of manifolds can be represented by (not necessarily connected) submanifolds. When the ambient manifold has a geometric structure it is natural to ask for more. In the context of hyperbolic three-manifolds the best case scenario is to be able to represent a class by a locally totally geodesic submanifold; however, for classes of degree 2 this is not possible in general. In the present paper the authors show that one can still represent a suitable multiple of an integral homology class by a quasi-Fuchsian (in particular connected) surface (whose lift to hyperbolic space bounds a quasi-circle -- image of a conformal circle by a quasi-conformal homeomorphism -- on the boundary at infinity). While not as nice as locally totally geodesic surfaces these still have good properties: for example they always can be lifted to embedded surfaces in a finite cover, as was proven by I. Agol (this was the last step in the proof of the Virtually Haken conjecture, building on work of D. Wise and \textit{J. Kahn} and \textit{V. Markovic} [Ann. Math. (2) 175, No. 3, 1127--1190 (2012; Zbl 1254.57014)]). The authors also prove that if a collection of non-null-homotopic closed curves maps to a torsion class in the first homology group then in a finite cover it has a lift that bounds a quasi-fuchsian surface. Both results are a consequence of a more general result. The proof of this result builds on the work of Kahn and Markovic alluded to above (note that this work alone is sufficient to deduce a version of the first corollary: any 2-homology class can be represented by a collection of quasi-Fuchsian surfaces).

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