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Three-manifolds that do not admit veering triangulations
Abstract
We show that if a three-manifold M admits a veering triangulation, then the dual spine of every essential triangulation of M can be smoothed to a branched surface. We use this criterion to identify a large collection of cusped hyperbolic three-manifolds that do not admit veering triangulations. We then use the same criterion to construct the first infinite family of cusped hyperbolic three-manifolds without veering triangulations.
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BibTeX
@misc{hall2026threemanifolds,
title = {{Three-manifolds that do not admit veering triangulations}},
author = {Layne Hall},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.37057},
eprint = {2610.37057},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37057},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Three-manifolds that do not admit veering triangulations
AU - Layne Hall
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/27
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.37057
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37057
AB - We show that if a three-manifold M admits a veering triangulation, then the dual spine of every essential triangulation of M can be smoothed to a branched surface. We use this criterion to identify a large collection of cusped hyperbolic three-manifolds that do not admit veering triangulations. We then use the same criterion to construct the first infinite family of cusped hyperbolic three-manifolds without veering triangulations.
ER -