Faculty Publications
Publication Date
2017
Disciplines
Geometry and Topology | Mathematics
Abstract
Reid has asked whether hyperbolic manifolds with the same geodesic length spectrum must be commensurable. Building toward a negative answer to this question, we construct examples of hyperbolic 3–manifolds that share an arbitrarily large portion of the length spectrum but are not commensurable. More precisely, for every n ≫ 0, we construct a pair of incommensurable hyperbolic 3–manifolds Nn and Nµn whose volume is approximately n and whose length spectra agree up to length n.
Both Nn and Nµn are built by gluing two standard submanifolds along a complicated pseudo-Anosov map, ensuring that these manifolds have a very thick collar about an essential surface. The two gluing maps differ by a hyper-elliptic involution along this surface. Our proof also involves a new commensurability criterion based on pairs of pants.
Document Type
Accepted Version
Rights
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: "Spectrally similar incommensurable 3-manifolds," by David Futer and Christian Millichap, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1112/plms.12045. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Original Citation
David Futer & Christian Millichap
Spectrally similar incommensurable 3-manifolds.
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2017, volume 115, issue 2, pages 411-447
doi:10.1112/plms.12045
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Futer, David and Millichap, Christian, "Spectrally Similar Incommensurable 3-Manifolds" (2017). Faculty Publications. Accepted Version. Submission 10.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/mathfac_pubs/10
Comments
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