Minimal simplicial volume conjecture for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary

For each g2g\geq 2, let Mg\mathcal{M}_g be the set of 33-manifolds with boundary that admit an ideal triangulation by gg tetrahedra and have Euler characteristic χ(M)=1g\chi(M)=1-g, and let Mg\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g be the set of hyperbolic 33-manifolds with connected geodesic boundary satisfying χ(M)=22g\chi(\partial M)=2-2g. Minimal simplicial volume conjecture. For g2g\geq 2, the elements of Mg\mathcal{M}_g are exactly the ones having the smallest simplicial volume among the elements of Mg\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g. Moreover, the eight elements of M2\mathcal{M}_2 are the hyperbolic manifolds with nonempty geodesic boundary having the smallest simplicial volume. This conjecture proposes that the manifolds of smallest Riemannian volume in each family also minimize simplicial volume, despite the absence of a universal proportionality constant between these invariants. Its status is not resolved in the source.

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Michelle Bucher, Roberto Frigerio and Cristina Pagliantini, “A quantitative version of a theorem by Jungreis”, arXiv:1503.03837 (2015).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1208.0545.

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