Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 21 (2014)

Number 1

The genus spectrum of a hyperbolic 3-manifold

Pages: 169 – 185

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2014.v21.n1.a14

Authors

D. B. McReynolds (Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.)

A. W. Reid (Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, Tx., U.S.A.)

Abstract

In this paper, we study the spectrum of totally geodesic surfaces of a finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold. We show that for arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds that contain a totally geodesic surface, this spectrum determines the commensurability class. In addition, we show that any finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold has many pairs of non-isometric finite covers with identical spectra. Forgetting multiplicities, we can also construct pairs where the volume ratio is unbounded.

Accepted 30 October 2013

Published 25 July 2014