Stretch laminations and hyperbolic Dehn surgery

Abstract

We study maximal stretch laminations associated to certain best Lipschitz circle valued maps in Dehn surgery families of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. For these maps, we give a criterion based on the Thurston norm and Dehn filling slope length to determine when such a stretch lamination is a union of Dehn filling core curves. We use this to show there exist infinitely many examples where the homotopy class of the circle valued map includes a fibration and where the laminations have only closed leaves. This gives information about non-maximal horospherical orbit closures in the infinite cyclic covers associated to these fibrations.

26 pages, 6 figures