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A Lower Bound for the Volume of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Meyerhoff
Robert Meyerhoff*
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Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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The motivation for this paper was the work of Thurston and Jørgensen on volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. They prove, among other things, that the set of all volumes of complete hyperbolic 3-manifolds is well-ordered. In particular, there is a hyperbolic 3-manifold which has minimum volume among all complete hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Further, there is a minimum volume member in the collection of complete hyperbolic 3-manifolds with one cusp; and similarly for n cusps. Computer studies to date show that the manifold obtained by performing (5,1) Dehn surgery on the figure-eight knot in the 3-sphere is the leading candidate for the minimum volume hyperbolic 3-manifold. Its volume is about 0.98. The leading one-cusp minimum volume candidate is the figure-eight knot complement in the 3-sphere. Its volume is about 2.03.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 39 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1987 , pp. 1038 - 1056
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

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