Mom technology and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
David Gabai
Princeton University, USARobert Meyerhoff
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USAPeter Milley
Kitchener, Canada
Abstract
This paper introduces Mom technology to understand low volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds; it is used in [GMM3] and [M1] to show that the Weeks manifold is the unique closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold of least volume. Here we enumerate the hyperbolic Mom- manifolds for , offer a conjectural enumeration when , and establish important technical results about embedding hyperbolic Mom- manifolds into hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Cite this article
David Gabai, Robert Meyerhoff, Peter Milley, Mom technology and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Comment. Math. Helv. 86 (2011), no. 1, pp. 145–188
DOI 10.4171/CMH/221