Cusp shape and tunnel number

# Cusp shape and tunnel number

## Abstract.

We show that the set of cusp shapes of hyperbolic tunnel number one manifolds is dense in the Teichmüller space of the torus. A similar result holds for tunnel number  manifolds. As a consequence, for fixed , there are infinitely many hyperbolic tunnel number  manifolds with at most one exceptional Dehn filling. This is in contrast to large volume Berge knots, which are tunnel number one manifolds, but with cusp shapes converging to a single point in Teichmüller space.

###### 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
57M50, 57M27, 30F40

## 1. Introduction

This paper is concerned with two invariants for a 3-manifold with torus boundary.

The first is geometric. If the interior of the 3-manifold admits a hyperbolic structure, then a tubular neighborhood of the torus boundary inherits a Euclidean structure, and this Euclidean structure is unique up to similarity of the torus. The similarity class of such a Euclidean structure is called the cusp shape of the 3-manifold. Manifolds with restricted cusp shapes have restrictions on their Dehn fillings, for example by the -theorem [6] or the 6-Theorem [2, 23]. There are uncountably many similarity classes of Euclidean metrics on the torus, but only countably many finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Thus not all similarity classes of metrics can appear as cusp shapes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Nevertheless, in [31], Nimershiem proved that the set of similarity classes occurring as cusp shapes of any hyperbolic 3-manifold is dense. Does the set of similarity classes occurring as cusp shapes remain dense when other restrictions are put on the manifold?

The second notion is topological. Every 3-manifold admits a Heegaard splitting: a decomposition along an embedded Heegaard surface into two handlebodies, or compression bodies if has boundary. Frequently, we would like to know the minimal genus over all possible Heegaard splittings of . If has a single torus boundary component, a genus Heegaard splitting gives a decomposition of into a genus handlebody and a compression body homeomorphic to the union of and one-handles; see Definition 2.1 below. In this case, the core of each one-handle of the compression body is called a tunnel; the union of the tunnels in is a tunnel system for . A 3-manifold with one torus boundary component and a minimal genus Heegaard splitting is called a tunnel-number manifold. For hyperbolic manifolds, the tunnel number is known to give a lower bound on hyperbolic volume [35].

A natural question to ask is whether there is a relationship between cusp shape and tunnel number, or whether restrictions on tunnel number give restrictions on cusp shape. In the case of tunnel number one, work of Baker on Berge knots [3] implies that there is an infinite sequence of cusped hyperbolic tunnel number one manifolds with cusp shape approaching that of a rectangle, up to scale. Do all hyperbolic tunnel number one manifolds have a restricted set of cusp shapes in their limit set? In this paper, we show they do not. In fact, the set of cusp shapes is dense in the Teichmüller space of the torus.

###### Theorem 1.1.

For any and any point in the Teichmüller space of the torus, there exists a complete, finite volume, tunnel number one hyperbolic manifold with a single cusp whose cusp shape is -close to .

A similar result holds for tunnel number manifolds.

###### Theorem 1.2.

For any , any point in the Teichmüller space of the torus, and any integer , there exists a complete, finite volume hyperbolic manifold that admits a tunnel system of tunnels and has a single cusp, with cusp shape -close to . Further, assuming recent work of Maher and Schleimer [26], we can ensure is tunnel number .

Theorem 1.1 also has interesting Dehn filling consequences.

###### Corollary 5.1.

For any integer , there exist infinitely many hyperbolic tunnel number  manifolds with at most one exceptional Dehn filling.

The Berge knots form a class of tunnel number one knots in that admit a lens space Dehn filling. Thus these knots have at least two exceptional Dehn fillings: the lens space and . Baker showed that infinitely many come from Dehn filling a minimally twisted chain link. It follows from his work that the cusp shapes of these knots limit to a single Euclidean similarity structure; see Proposition 6.1. In sharp contrast, Theorem 1.1 and Corollary 5.1 imply that cusp shapes of more general tunnel number one manifolds have broader limits, and fewer exceptional Dehn fillings. Indeed, Corollary 5.1 was already known in the case : The 2-bridge knots form a class of tunnel number one manifolds. It is known that infinitely many hyperbolic 2-bridge knots admit at most one exceptional Dehn fillings, due to work of Futer, Kalfagianni and Purcell bounding the cusp areas of these knots [16]. However, that paper does not discuss density of cusp shapes, and does not give any information on knots with higher tunnel numbers.

There is less literature on cusp shapes or geometric limits of tunnel number manifolds for higher . Examples of such manifolds with at least two exceptional fillings are known. Infinite families of one-cusped hyperbolic manifolds with tunnel number and at least two exceptional Dehn fillings have been constructed by Dunfield, Hoffman, and Licata [14], and by Baker [4]. Earlier, Teragaito found a family of knots in with a small Seifert fibred surgery [34]; these were generalised by Baker, Gordon, and Luecke to produce knots with tunnel number at least two and at least two exceptional Dehn fillings [5]. More generally, for any , Eudave-Muñoz and Luecke have constructed hyperbolic knots in with two exceptional Dehn fillings and tunnel number bounded below by  [15]. By the 6-Theorem [2, 23], the cusp shapes of these manifolds must lie in a bounded region of the moduli space of the torus. However, the limiting shapes of cusps of these families of manifolds have not been analyzed.

To investigate results on Dehn filling further, for example to determine whether there are tunnel number manifolds with no exceptional Dehn fillings, we need to know the cusp area of our manifolds, i.e. the area of the boundary of a maximal horoball neighborhood of the cusp. In this paper we use an algebraic limit argument to give cusp shapes, bounding the similarity structure of the cusp torus, but not its scale. Unfortunately, our method of proof does not give any information on cusp area; a geometric limit argument would be required. Thus while the shortest slope of the torus must have length at least one, and therefore long narrow tori have at most one exceptional Dehn filling, we cannot determine whether fatter tori are large or small, with long or short slope lengths. The following are still unknown.

###### Question 1.3.

Are there families of tunnel number manifolds with no short slopes and no exceptional Dehn fillings? What are the cluster points of the areas of the maximal cusps of tunnel number manifolds?

To prove Theorem 1.1, we consider geometric structures on compression bodies, similar to work in [11], [8], and [24]. Given any framed Euclidean similarity structure on a torus, we first find hyperbolic structures on compression bodies with that cusp shape , then show these lead to maximally pinched structures with cusp shape approaching . By gluing maximally pinched compression bodies to maximally pinched handlebodies and Dehn filling, we obtain our main results.

### 1.1. Acknowledgements

The authors thank Ken Baker for helpful conversations, and the referee for suggestions to improve the paper.

## 2. Hyperbolic structures on compression bodies

Let be a closed, orientable (possibly disconnected) surface with genus at least , and let denote the interval .

###### Definition 2.1.

A compression body is either a handlebody, or the result of attaching -handles to along such that the result is connected. The negative boundary is and is denoted ; if is a handlebody then . The positive boundary is and is denoted .

The compression bodies that we study here are those for which is a torus and is a genus surface, with an integer. We call this the -compression body and denote it by or just when there is no confusion. The numbers and refer to the genera of the boundary components. Thus is obtained by attaching 1-handles to . See Figure 1.

The fundamental group of is , because deformation retracts to the union of a torus and an arc at the core of the 1-handle; see Figure 1. This arc is called the core tunnel of . We will denote the generators of the factor by and , and the generator of the free by .

More generally, for the -compression body, the fundamental group is

with generators for the factor, and generators for the free factors, where can be taken to be freely homotopic to the core tunnels of the 1-handles, with endpoints connected by an arc on .

### 2.1. Hyperbolic structures

We will construct complete hyperbolic structures on compression bodies with desired geometric properties.

Let be a discrete, faithful representation. Let denote the image of such a representation. Note acts on . The representation gives a hyperbolic structure on if is homeomorphic to the interior of .

Note has a subgroup , generated by parabolics fixing a point at infinity. By conjugating if necessary, we may assume fixes the point in . Let be any horoball about infinity. Then is a rank-2 cusp of . Its boundary is a flat (Euclidean) torus.

We will study by studying its isometric spheres, as follows.

###### Definition 2.2.

Let . Then can be represented by a matrix with determinant and coefficients in , well defined up to multiplication by :

 g=±(abcd).

Provided does not fix the point , the isometric sphere of , denoted by , is the Euclidean hemisphere centered at with radius .

The following properties of isometric spheres are well known. For a reference, see for example [24, Section 2].

###### Lemma 2.3.

Let .

1. If is any horosphere centered at in the upper half space , then is the set of points in equidistant from and .

2. is mapped isometrically to by ; the half ball bounded by is mapped to the exterior of the half ball bounded by .

###### Definition 2.4.

A vertical fundamental domain for is a fundamental domain for the action of cut out by finitely many vertical geodesics planes in .

Examples are in order.

###### Lemma 2.5.

Let be defined on generators , and of by

 ρ(α)=(1a01),ρ(β)=(1b01),ρ(γ1)=(2−110),

where and are complex numbers which are linearly independent over with and . Then gives a hyperbolic structure on .

###### Proof.

The isometric sphere has center and radius . The isometric sphere has center and radius . A vertical fundamental domain for the action of is cut out by vertical planes through lattice points generated by translation by and in . Because and , we may choose the planes so that a vertical fundamental domain contains both isometric spheres , in its interior.

We claim that the four planes of a vertical fundamental domain and the two isometric spheres and form a fundamental region for . This can be seen by the Poincaré polyhedron theorem (e.g. [24, Theorem 2.25]): vertical planes are glued isometrically to vertical planes, is glued isometrically to . Thus the object obtained by these face pairings is a manifold with discrete fundamental group isomorphic to the face pairing group, isomorphic to .

Finally, to see that it gives a hyperbolic structure on , we need to show that the interior of is homeomorphic to . This can be seen as follows. The quotient of by is homeomorphic to . Remove the open half-spaces cut out by and and glue these to each other. The result is homeomorphic to attaching a 1-handle. Thus the space is homeomorphic to the interior of . ∎

Figure 2 shows some isometric spheres of the hyperbolic structure of Lemma 2.5.

The following extends the example to .

###### Lemma 2.6.

Fix an integer . Define as in Lemma 2.5. Let

 A=(1501).

Let , and inductively define . Finally, let and be complex numbers that are linearly independent over , with and chosen sufficiently large so that the set of isometric spheres is disjoint from the translates of that set under and . Then gives a complete hyperbolic structure on .

###### Proof.

Let be a horosphere centered at in . Note that using Lemma 2.3,

 I(Aρ(γ1)A−1) ={x∈H3:d(x,H)=d(x,Aρ(γ−11)A−1H)} ={x∈H3:d(x,H)=d(x,Aρ(γ−11)H)} ={x∈H3:d(A−1x,H)=d(A−1x,ρ(γ−11)H)} =A{y∈H3:d(y,H)=d(y,ρ(γ−11)H)} =AI(ρ(γ1)).

The above calculation shows that the isometric sphere of the element is obtained from that of by horizontal translation by . Similarly, for any integer , the isometric spheres of are obtained from the corresponding spheres of by horizontal translation by . Thus, the configuration of spheres in Figure 2 does not intersect with the -translated configuration. Thus isometric spheres for do not overlap for any .

As in the proof of the previous lemma, the Poincaré polyhedron theorem implies that these isometric spheres, as well as a vertical fundamental domain, cut out a fundamental region for the action of . Thus this is a discrete, faithful representation. Moreover, again gluing of isometric spheres and corresponds to attaching one-handles. Thus the manifold is homeomorphic to the interior of . ∎

## 3. Spaces of hyperbolic structures

Define the representation space of with parabolic locus to be the space

 R(C,T)={representations ρ:π1(C)→PSL(2,C)∣g∈π1(T)⇒ρ(g) % is parabolic}.

The space of hyperbolic structures on is the set

 AH(C,T)={ρ∈R(C,T)∣ρ is discrete % and faithful}/∼

where the equivalence is given by if they are conjugate representations.

The topology on is given by algebraic convergence, as follows.

###### Definition 3.1.

A sequence of representations in converges algebraically to a representation if the sequence converges to for every . Here we regard as a point in the manifold , and so converges to in the sense of convergence of points in .

Suppose converges to algebraically. Algebraic convergence does not reveal much geometric information. For example the sequence of quotient manifolds does not necessarily converge to the limiting quotient manifold ; see [35, 7, 22]. A stronger notion is geometric convergence.

###### Definition 3.2.

A sequence of subgroups of converges geometrically to a subgroup if:

1. For each , there exists such that converges to .

2. If , and converges to , then .

Geometric convergence of discrete groups implies convergence of their quotient spaces; see e.g. [9, Theorem 3.2.9]. Work of Jorgensen and Marden [18] implies that if a sequence converges to a discrete group algebraically, then there is a subsequence converging geometrically to a group , with . Thus the quotient manifold of the algebraic limit is a cover of the quotient manifold of the geometric limit.

###### Definition 3.3.

A hyperbolic structure is geometrically finite if admits a finite-sided, convex fundamental domain.

For example, the hyperbolic structures of Lemmas 2.5 and 2.6 are geometrically finite. The fundamental domain consists of the isometric spheres described in the lemmas as well as a vertical fundamental domain. These are finite sided.

###### Definition 3.4.

A hyperbolic structure on is minimally parabolic if has no non-peripheral parabolic subgroups. Equivalently, in the case of , a hyerbolic structure is minimally parabolic if it has no rank-1 parabolic subgroup aside from subgroups of .

The hyperbolic structures of Lemmas 2.5 and 2.6 are not minimally parabolic. Each of the representatives has been chosen to be parabolic, but is not an element of the free abelian rank-2 subgroup of . Thus gives a structure which is geometrically finite but not minimally parabolic.

Denote the space of minimally parabolic, geometrically finite structures on by . The boundary of the space consists of equivalence classes of representations which give structures that are geometrically finite but not minimally parabolic, or structures that are geometrically infinite (not geometrically finite). The Density theorem ([30], [32]) implies that every structure on the boundary of is the algebraic limit of a convergent sequence in , and that the closure of is . We call structures that are geometrically finite but not minimally parabolic pinched structures.

Note that Lemma 2.5 and Lemma 2.6 give examples of pinched structures.

###### Definition 3.5.

A maximally pinched structure is a pinched structure for which the boundary of the convex core of consists of 3-punctured spheres.

###### Remark 3.6.

The structures of Definition 3.5 are typically called maximal cusps in the literature on Kleinian groups, because the boundary of each 3-punctured sphere is a rank-1 cusp (e.g. [27, 10]). Unfortunately, in the case of manifolds with torus boundary components, a maximal cusp refers to something else entirely: a maximally embedded horoball neighborhood of all rank-2 cusps of the manifold. Because our maximally pinched manifolds will also have a maximal horoball neighborhood of the torus boundary component, we rename the type of structures. We decided on pinched because such a structure pinches a maximal collection of curves on the higher genus boundary component into parabolics, with length .

Maximally pinched structures are useful because of the following result due to Canary, Culler, Hersonsky, and Shalen [10], extending work of McMullen [27].

###### Theorem 3.7.

Maximally pinched structures are dense on the boundary of the space .∎

###### Lemma 3.8.

Let be any point in the Teichmüller space of the torus. For any , there exists a pinched structure on such that gives cusp shape .

###### Proof.

The representation is defined as in Lemma 2.5 and in Lemma 2.6, choosing complex numbers and to give the desired shape, as follows:

1. Complex numbers and are chosen to be linearly independent over with and , and and large enough that the set of isometric spheres is disjoint from its translates under and .

2. Also, for a horoball about infinity.

Condition (i) ensures that and satisfy the hypothesis of Lemma 2.6. Hence, gives a pinched structure. Condition (ii) ensures that the shape on the rank-2 cusp of equipped with this structure is . ∎

Recall that the Teichmüller space of the torus is the space of similarity classes of (marked) flat metrics on the torus. It is isometric to the upper half plane , equipped with the hyperbolic metric; see for example [25].

###### Lemma 3.9.

Let be any point in the Teichmüller space of the torus. For any , there exists a maximally pinched structure on such that the cusp shape of is -close to .

###### Proof.

Let be a pinched structure on with cusp shape as in Lemma 3.8. By Theorem 3.7, maximally pinched structures are dense on the boundary of the space . Therefore, the fact that implies that there exists a sequence of maximally pinched structures on which converges algebraically to . Thus, there exists a maximally pinched structure that is -close to . In particular, and are -close to and because the convergence is algebraic. As a result, gives a cusp shape that is -close to . ∎

Lemma 3.9 is only an existence result, and unfortunately gives no explicit structure or examples to work with. Finding examples of maximally pinched structures is non-trivial. To find such a structure on , a choice of three appropriate curves on must be pinched, which amounts to finding values of , and for which certain products of generators have trace , namely those products that represent the boundary curves. For example, one maximally pinched structure with cusp shape is given by the representation

 ρ(α)=(1401),ρ(β)=(1−1+i√301),ρ(γ1)=(2−110).

This maximally pinched structure has a fundamental region in lying over the parallelogram and hemispheres on shown on the left of Figure 3; the group elements labeling the circles in that figure are short for isometric spheres , , etc. To obtain a fundamental region for the convex core, cut out four additional hemispheres that are “dual,” enclosing each curvilinear triangle in the original fundamental region as shown on the right of Figure 3.

Note that face identifications glue boundaries of those curvilinear triangles in such a way that the convex core has boundary consisting of two totally geodesic 3-punctured spheres. Note also that this example has particularly simple geometry. There are (countably infinitely many) more complicated structures, with varied cusp shapes. More discussion can be found in [13, Section 4.3]; see also [21].

## 4. Pinched handlebodies

We will glue the compression bodies of the previous section to carefully constructed handlebodies, obtaining manifolds with a Heegaard splitting of genus . To ensure there is not a Heegaard splitting of lower genus, we will use techniques of [8] to bound the Hempel distance of the splitting. In this section we review the necessary background, particularly Hempel distance, and state the relevant results on a handlebody.

Let be a closed, oriented, connected surface, and let denote the curve complex of . Thus is the simplicial complex with vertices corresponding to isotopy classes of simple closed curves, with a collection of curves forming a simplex when the curves can be realized disjointly on . Distance in is the minimum number of edges in any path in the 1-skeleton.

###### Definition 4.1.

Suppose a compression body or handlebody has outer boundary . The disk set in consists of vertices that correspond to boundaries of essential disks in the compression body. Thus a Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold along has two disk sets, one on either side. The Hempel distance of the Heegaard splitting is the minimal distance in between the disk sets; see Hempel [17]. We denote the disk set of a compression body or handlebody by .

The Hempel distance is relevant to us because it can be used to show a manifold has tunnel number : Scharlemann and Tomova showed that if the Hempel distance of a genus Heegaard splitting is strictly greater than , then the manifold will have a unique Heegaard splitting of genus and no Heegaard splitting of smaller genus [33]. We wish to build manifolds with Heegaard splittings of high distance.

Suppose is a disjoint collection of curves on . Recall that a multitwist on is a collection of Dehn twists, one for each curve of .

###### Lemma 4.2.

Let denote the maximally pinched structure on of Lemma 3.9. Let denote the pinched curves on the outer boundary ; note these form a maximal simplex of .

1. There exists a maximally pinched structure on a handlebody of genus such that the pinching is along curves of .

2. More generally, assuming results of [26], there exists a maximally pinched structure on a handlebody of genus with pinched curves such that if is a multitwist on , and is the disk set of , then the distance between disk sets of and of is at least .

###### Proof.

The first part of the lemma is straightforward. For example, take any homeomorphism of to the compression body in a Heegaard splitting of any one-cusped 3-manifold of genus , and mark the curves on . Let be the handlebody of the splitting, also with curves marked on . Then the fact that there is a maximally pinched structure on with curves of pinched to parabolics follows from Thurston’s Uniformization theorem (see Morgan [28]).

The second part follows as in the proof of Theorem 4.12 of [8]. Let denote the handlebody graph, consisting of a vertex for each handlebody with boundary and an edge between handlebodies whose disk sets intersect in the curve complex . The distance between handlebodies in is defined to be the minimal number of edges in a path between them in . Abusing notation slightly, we let be the relation taking a handlebody to the disk set of . Let be the relation taking a disk set of a compression body with outer boundary to the handlebody complex , such that maps to the set consisting of all for which is a subset of . In particular, is a subset of . Let be the set

 X0={h(T(D(C0)))∈H(S)∣T is a multitwist on P},

so is the subset of consisting of all handlebodies whose disk sets contain for some multitwist .

Now, a Dehn twist along a curve in is an isometry of fixing pointwise. Thus if is any multitwist on , the distance from to is equal to the distance from to . Call this distance .

Then has bounded diameter in , for if , then there are multitwists and such that and . Then

 d(D(V),D(W))≤ d(D(V),P)+d(P,D(W)) ≤ d(T1(D(C0)),P)+d(P,T2(D(C0)))=2R0,

where denotes minimal distance in . The distance in the handlebody graph is bounded by one more than the distance in ; see [8, Lemma 4.11]. Hence has bounded diameter in .

By work of Maher and Schleimer, has infinite diameter [26]. Thus we may choose a handlebody in such that for all , the distance in the handlebody graph between and is at least .

Now, take a maximally pinched structure on with curves on pinched; again such a structure exists by Thurston’s Uniformization Theorem [28]. ∎

Maximally pinched structures on handlebodies have been studied in depth. For example, Keen and Series examined maximally pinched structures on genus 2 handlebodies, and showed they are obtained by solutions to polynomials, one for each curve on the 4-punctured sphere, each giving unique geometry [21].

More generally, the limit sets of maximally pinched structures are known to be circle packings, given by limit sets of 3-punctured spheres that form the boundary at infinity of such a manifold [20]. When we take the convex core of such a structure, we cut out the half-space bounded by each circle in the circle packing, obtaining in the quotient a finite volume space whose boundary consists of embedded, totally geodesic 3-punctured spheres.

The interiors of these convex cores can have a wide range of geometry. As one example, the universal cover of a maximally pinched structure on a genus  handlebody is shown in [29, page 200]. There are four red circles shown the picture, and a fundamental domain for the manifold is obtained by cutting out hyperplanes bounded by these circles; the manifold is formed by gluing the boundaries of those hyperplanes in pairs. See also Figure 7.7 in [29, page 205]. The convex core of the manifold is then obtained by cutting out hyperplanes bounded by “dual circles,” enclosing the black curvilinear triangles, and an additional circle enclosing all three black triangles. Note that a fundamental domain for the convex core is therefore a regular ideal octahedron.

## 5. Cusp shapes of tunnel number n manifolds

In this section, we prove the main theorems.

###### Proof of Theorem 1.2.

Let be the compression body with the maximally pinched structure of Lemma 3.9. Let be a maximally pinched structure on a genus handlebody from Lemma 4.2. The convex cores of and have boundary consisting of embedded, totally geodesic 3-punctured spheres. There is a unique hyperbolic structure on such a 3-punctured sphere (see [1]), hence the convex cores of and can be glued along their 3-punctured sphere boundaries via isometry.

Since both and are geometrically finite, their convex cores have finite volume and the resulting manifold is a complete, finite volume hyperbolic manifold. The manifold has a system of tunnels, as it is the result of gluing a -compression body and a genus handlebody along their genus boundaries; let denote this surface of genus . Furthermore, has rank-2 cusps, of which come from gluing the rank-1 cusps on the boundaries of the convex cores of and . Denote these cusps by , , , . The remaining cusp is the rank-2 cusp of whose shape is , which is -close to (from Lemma 3.9).

For each , the cusp meets the Heegard surface of genus . Choose a homology basis for such that is parallel to the slope of on , and is any curve with intersection number with . Let denote the slope , where is a positive integer. Let . Let denote the manifold obtained by Dehn filling along the slopes on cusps . Then has Heegaard surface . On one side of is a genus handlebody, and on the other side is a -compression body. Thus is manifold with a system of tunnels. Moreover, has only one rank- cusp by construction.

Further, note that Dehn filling along slopes fixes the disk set of , but modifies the disk set of by applying a multitwist along . Assuming the second part of Lemma 4.2, the Hempel distance of the resulting Heegaard splitting of will be larger than . Hence by work of Scharlemann and Tomova [33], this is the minimal genus Heegaard splitting of . (If we do not assume the second part of Lemma 4.2, we only conclude that has a system of tunnels.)

Let for each . Then and by the hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem, the manifolds form a sequence of complete, finite volume, hyperbolic manifolds that converges geometrically to . It follows that the rank cusps of converge to the rank cusp of , which has shape . Therefore, by choosing large enough , the manifold has a system of tunnels and cusp shape -close to . Assuming the second part of Lemma 4.2, this manifold is tunnel number . ∎

We may actually complete the proof of Theorem 1.1 without using the work of Maher and Schleimer [26] used in Lemma 4.2.

###### Proof of Theorem 1.1.

Let . For any , and any , by the proof of Theorem 1.2 we obtain a hyperbolic 3-manifold with a single tunnel and cusp shape -close to . Because there is a single tunnel, has a genus Heegaard splitting. Since there are no hyperbolic manifolds with smaller genus Heegaard splittings, must have tunnel number one. ∎

###### Corollary 5.1.

For any integer , there exist infinitely many hyperbolic tunnel number  manifolds with at most one exceptional Dehn filling.

###### Proof.

For any and , let be a flat torus that is rectangular in shape, normalized to have one side of length and the perpendicular side of length . Let be a tunnel number one manifold whose cusp shape is within of , provided by Theorem 1.2. In a maximal cusp neighborhood, the shortest curve on the cusp has length at least . Thus the cusp embeds as a Euclidean torus with one slope length at least , and all other slope lengths at least . By the 6-Theorem [2, 23], there can be at most one exceptional Dehn filling of . ∎

## 6. Exceptional fillings

Recall that Berge knots have tunnel number one. Corollary 5.1 contrasts with the following proposition concerning Berge knots, which follows from work of Baker [3].

###### Proposition 6.1.

Let denote the Euclidean similarity structure on the torus that includes the rectangle. Let denote a neighborhood of . Then there exists a sequence of hyperbolic Berge knots, all with cusp shape lying in the neighborhood of . Moreover, maximal cusps for these Berge knots limit to a rectangle.

###### Proof.

Baker showed that large volume Berge knots are obtained by Dehn filling the complement of a minimally twisted -chain link  [3]. For large, any Berge knot with volume at least is obtained by such a Dehn filling. Thus for fixed , there is a sequence of such knots converging geometrically to , and so the cusp shapes of this sequence of knots converge to a cusp shape of .

We show that as , cusp shapes of approach . By symmetry, cusp shapes of all cusps of are identical, so we need only show that one cusp shape approaches this similarity structure.

The minimally twisted -chain link is obtained by Dehn filling a link obtained by the following procedure. First, augment the minimally twisted 3-chain link; the complement is a hyperbolic manifold with four cusps, three of which have shape . Denote the link by . See Figure 4, obtained from SnapPy [12].

Next, take the augmented minimally twisted 2-chain link, denoted , shown in Figure 5. This is a hyperbolic manifold with three cusps, two of which have shape .

We will take belted sums, as in Adams [1]. Recall that belted sum cuts two manifolds along embedded 3-punctured spheres and reglues by isometry of the 3-punctured spheres. Take the belted sum of and , summing along the augmentation component of each. The result will be the augmented minimally twisted 5-chain link . For both and , the 3-punctured sphere we cut along meets the cusp under consideration exactly twice in a curve perpendicular to the cusp, with the two curves spaced equidistantly along the cusp. In Figure 4, the 3-punctured sphere corresponds to the two curves running vertically across the cusp over the horoball colored cyan. Note they are equidistantly spaced and perpendicular to the boundary. In Figure 5, the 3-punctured sphere runs over the green horoball. When we perform the belted sum, we cut along these curves and reassemble, gluing half of a cusp of to half of a cusp of to obtain a cusp of , shown in Figure 6. Because the cut happened halfway along each, along 3-punctured spheres meeting full-sized horospheres, the cusp shape is still .

The cusp of the augmentation component under the belted sum is similarly changed, now by stacking the cusps corresponding to the augmentation components of and along 3-punctured spheres. We do not need to know the geometry of this cusp precisely, except that the length of the meridian of the cusp has increased.

Now to obtain the augmented minimally twisted -chain link , inductively take the belt sum of with . As in the case of , the cusp shape of the chain link component is obtained by cutting cusps of and in half and assembling half of each into the new cusp. Hence its shape is still . The cusp of the augmentation component is obtained by stacking the cusp corresponding to the augmentation components of and ; this is equivalent to stacking one copy of the cusp of and copies of the cusp of . Thus the meridian length grows linearly with .

Note that Dehn filling the meridian of the augmentation component of gives the minimally twisted chain link . Since the length of the meridian grows linearly with , by the hyperbolic Dehn filling theorem for large enough, the cusp shape of will lie in the neighborhood of . Take a sequence of filling slopes on the other cusps of that have high length and yield a Berge knot. Again the hyperbolic Dehn filling theorem implies that the cusp shape of the Berge knot lies in .

Finally, because Berge knots are obtained by Dehn filling, which gives a geometrically convergent sequence, not only will their cusp shapes converge, but in addition, their maximal cusps will converge to the maximal cusp of the unfilled component of the augmented minimally twisted -chain link. The maximal cusp of a chain link component of and is a rectangle. (This can be shown via SnapPy [12] as in Figures 4 and 5, or by hand.) The cutting and regluing in both cusps is along 3-punctured spheres meeting that maximal cusp in identical horocycle patterns. Thus the belted sums of these links have cusps that are rectangles, and the result follows. ∎

###### Remark 6.2.

As noted by the referee, in the proof of Proposition 6.1, the hyperbolic structure on the augmented, minimally twisted -chain link complement can also be obtained by taking the -fold cover of the Whitehead link, then cutting along the 3-punctured sphere bounded by the augmented component, untwisting, and then regluing. Following this procedure using the geometry of the Whitehead link complement, for example as in [19], leads to the same results on cusp shapes without appealing to belted sums.

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