Dehn Filling at Math Glossary

What is it? Another view of Dehn surgery due to Thurston and motivated by hyperbolic geometry. If the complement of a knot in a 3-manifold has a family of hyperbolic structures, then typically many of them can be completed or filled in to realize different Dehn surge

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