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Effective bilipschitz bounds on drilling and filling

David Futer, Jessica S Purcell and Saul Schleimer

Geometry & Topology 26 (2022) 1077–1188
Abstract

We prove explicit bilipschitz bounds on the change in metric between the thick part of a cusped hyperbolic 3–manifold N and the thick part of any of its long Dehn fillings. Given a bilipschitz constant J > 1 and a thickness constant 𝜖 > 0, we quantify how long a Dehn filling suffices to guarantee a J–bilipschitz map on 𝜖–thick parts. A similar theorem without quantitative control was previously proved by Brock and Bromberg, applying Hodgson and Kerckhoff’s theory of cone deformations. We achieve quantitative control by bounding the analytic quantities that control the infinitesimal change in metric during the cone deformation.

Our quantitative results have two immediate applications. First, we relate the Margulis number of N to the Margulis numbers of its Dehn fillings. In particular, we give a lower bound on the systole of any closed 3–manifold M whose Margulis number is less than 0.29. Combined with Shalen’s upper bound on the volume of such a manifold, this gives a procedure to compute the finite list of 3–manifolds whose Margulis numbers are below 0.29.

Our second application is to the cosmetic surgery conjecture. Given the systole of a one-cusped hyperbolic manifold N, we produce an explicit upper bound on the length of a slope involved in a cosmetic surgery on N. This reduces the cosmetic surgery conjecture on N to an explicit finite search.

Keywords
cone manifold, hyperbolic manifold, Dehn filling, Dehn surgery, cosmetic surgery, Margulis number
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 30F40, 57K10, 57K32
Supplementary material

Sage code for the interval arithmetic calculations

References
Publication
Received: 7 August 2019
Revised: 15 February 2021
Accepted: 16 April 2021
Published: 3 August 2022
Proposed: David Gabai
Seconded: Mladen Bestvina, Stavros Garoufalidis
Authors
David Futer
Department of Mathematics
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
United States
https://math.temple.edu/~dfuter
Jessica S Purcell
School of Mathematics
Monash University
Clayton VIC
Australia
http://users.monash.edu/~jpurcell/
Saul Schleimer
Department of Mathematics
University of Warwick
Coventry
United Kingdom
http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masgar/