Dehn filling: A survey

Gordon, C.

Banach Center Publications, Tome 43 (1998), p. 129-144 / Harvested from The Polish Digital Mathematics Library

Résumé

In this paper we give a brief survey of the present state of knowledge on exceptional Dehn fillings on 3-manifolds with torus boundary. For our discussion, it is necessary to first give a quick overview of what is presently known, and what is conjectured, about the structure of 3-manifolds. This is done in Section 2. In Section 3 we summarize the known bounds on the distances between various kinds of exceptional Dehn fillings, and compare these with the distances that arise in known examples. In Section 4 we make some remarks on the special case of complements of knots in the 3-sphere. We have chosen to phrase questions as conjectures; this gives them a certain edge and perhaps increases the likelihood that someone will try to (dis)prove them. Incidentally, no particular claim is made for unattributed conjectures; most of them are lore to the appropriate folk. Related survey articles are [Go1] and [Lu]. I would like to thank Pat Callahan, Craig Hodgson, John Luecke, Alan Reid and Eric Sedgwick for helpful conversations, and the referee for his useful comments.

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Publié le : 1998-01-01

Zbl 0916.57016

EUDML-ID : urn:eudml:doc:208801

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