Characteristic subsurfaces and Dehn filling
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Abstract:
Let $M$ be a simple knot manifold. Using the characteristic submanifold theory and the combinatorics of graphs in surfaces, we develop a method for bounding the distance between the boundary slope of an essential surface in $M$ which is not a fiber or a semi-fiber, and the boundary slope of a certain type of singular surface. Applications include bounds on the distances between exceptional Dehn surgery slopes. It is shown that if the fundamental group of $M(\alpha )$ has no non-abelian free subgroup, and if $M(\beta )$ is a reducible manifold which is not homeomorphic to $S^1 \times S^2$ or $P^3 \# P^3$, then $\Delta (\alpha , \beta )\le 5$. Under the same condition on $M(\beta )$, it is shown that if $M(\alpha )$ is Seifert fibered, then $\Delta (\alpha , \beta )\le 6$. Moreover, in the latter situation, character variety techniques are used to characterize the topological types of $M(\alpha )$ and $M(\beta )$ in case the bound of $6$ is attained.References
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Additional Information
- Steve Boyer
- Affiliation: Département de Mathématiques, Université du Québec, Montréal, P. O. Box 8888, Postal Station Centre-ville Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3P8
- MR Author ID: 219677
- Email: boyer@math.uqam.ca
- Marc Culler
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045
- Email: culler@math.uic.edu
- Peter B. Shalen
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045
- MR Author ID: 159535
- Email: shalen@math.uic.edu
- Xingru Zhang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260-2900
- MR Author ID: 346629
- Email: xinzhang@math.buffalo.edu
- Received by editor(s): December 6, 2002
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 2, 2003
- Published electronically: October 28, 2004
- Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by NSERC grant OGP0009446 and FCAR grant ER-68657
The second and third authors were partially supported by NSF grant DMS 0204142
The fourth author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS 0204428. - © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 2389-2444
- MSC (2000): Primary 57M25, 57M50, 57M99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03576-7
- MathSciNet review: 2140444