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   Yang, Tian (May 2023, Journal of Topology)

   Abstract We define a relative version of the Turaev–Viro invariants for an ideally triangulated compact 3‐manifold with nonempty boundary and a coloring on the edges, generalizing the Turaev–Viro invariants [36] of the manifold. We also propose the volume conjecture for these invariants whose asymptotic behavior is related to the volume of the manifold in the hyperbolic polyhedral metric [22, 23] with singular locus of the edges and cone angles determined by the coloring, and prove the conjecture in the case that the cone angles are sufficiently small. This suggests an approach of solving the volume conjecture for the Turaev–Viro invariants proposed by Chen–Yang [8] for hyperbolic 3‐manifolds with totally geodesic boundary. 

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   We use the Weil–Petersson gradient flow for renormalized volume to study the space CC(N;S,X) of convex cocompact hyperbolic structures on the relatively acylindrical 3-manifold (N;S). Among the cases of interest are the deformation space of an acylindrical manifold and the Bers slice of quasifuchsian space associated to a fixed surface. To treat the possibility of degeneration along flow-lines to peripherally cusped structures, we introduce a surgery procedure to yield a surgered gradient flow that limits to the unique structure M_geod in CC( N;S,X) with totally geodesic convex core boundary facing S. Analyzing the geometry of structures along a flow line, we show that if V_R(M) is the renormalized volume of M, then V_R(M)−V_R(M_geod) is bounded below by a linear function of the Weil Petersson distance d_WP(∂_c M,∂_cM_geod), with constants depending only on the topology of S. The surgered flow gives a unified approach to a number of problems in the study of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, providing new proofs and generalizations of well-known theorems such as Storm’s result that M geod has minimal volume for N acylindrical and the second author’s result comparing convex core volume and Weil–Petersson distance for quasifuchsian manifolds. 

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5. Geodesic planes in geometrically finite acylindrical -manifolds

   https://doi.org/10.1017/etds.2021.19  

   BENOIST, YVES; OH, HEE (February 2022, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems)

   Abstract Let M be a geometrically finite acylindrical hyperbolic $$3$$ -manifold and let $M^*$ denote the interior of the convex core of M . We show that any geodesic plane in $M^*$ is either closed or dense, and that there are only countably many closed geodesic planes in $M^*$ . These results were obtained by McMullen, Mohammadi and Oh [Geodesic planes in hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Invent. Math. 209 (2017), 425–461; Geodesic planes in the convex core of an acylindrical 3-manifold. Duke Math. J. , to appear, Preprint , 2018, arXiv:1802.03853] when M is convex cocompact. As a corollary, we obtain that when M covers an arithmetic hyperbolic $$3$$ -manifold $$M_0$$ , the topological behavior of a geodesic plane in $M^*$ is governed by that of the corresponding plane in $$M_0$$ . We construct a counterexample of this phenomenon when $$M_0$$ is non-arithmetic. 

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