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Geodesics and compression bodies
We consider hyperbolic structures on the compression body C with genus 2
positive boundary and genus 1 negative boundary. Note that C deformation
retracts to the union of the torus boundary and a single arc with its endpoints
on the torus. We call this arc the core tunnel of C. We conjecture that, in any
geometrically finite structure on C, the core tunnel is isotopic to a geodesic.
By considering Ford domains, we show this conjecture holds for many
geometrically finite structures. Additionally, we give an algorithm to compute
the Ford domain of such a manifold, and a procedure which has been implemented
to visualize many of these Ford domains. Our computer implementation gives
further evidence for the conjecture.Comment: 31 pages, 11 figures. V2 contains minor changes. To appear in
Experimental Mathematic
Geodesic systems of tunnels in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
It is unknown whether an unknotting tunnel is always isotopic to a geodesic
in a finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold. In this paper, we address the
generalization of this problem to hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting tunnel
systems. We show that there exist finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a
single cusp, with a system of at least two tunnels, such that all but one of
the tunnels come arbitrarily close to self-intersecting. This gives evidence
that systems of unknotting tunnels may not be isotopic to geodesics in tunnel
number n manifolds. In order to show this result, we prove there is a
geometrically finite hyperbolic structure on a (1;n)-compression body with a
system of core tunnels such that all but one of the core tunnels
self-intersect.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures. V2 contains minor updates to references and
exposition. To appear in Algebr. Geom. Topo
Short geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
For each , we prove existence of a computable constant such that if is a strongly irreducible Heegaard surface of genus
in a complete hyperbolic 3-manifold and is a simple geodesic of
length less than in , then is isotopic into .Comment: 12 pages, corrected Lemma
Extending pseudo-Anosov maps to compression bodies
We show that a pseudo-Anosov map on a boundary component of an irreducible
3-manifold has a power that partially extends to the interior if and only if
its (un)stable lamination is a projective limit of meridians. The proof is
through 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, and involves an investigation of
algebraic limits of convex cocompact compression bodies.Comment: 29 page
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