arXiv math/06060722006-06math.GT

Mom technology and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

David Gabai, Robert Meyerhoff, Peter Milley

备注：: 29 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; added citations and updated introduction

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This paper is the first in a series whose goal is to understand the structure of low-volume complete orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Here we introduce Mom technology and enumerate the hyperbolic Mom-n manifolds for n <= 4.

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