Toroidal Dehn fillings on hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Abstract

We determine all hyperbolic 3-manifolds $M$ admitting two toroidal Dehn fillings at distance 4 or 5. We show that if $M$ is a hyperbolic 3-manifold with a torus boundary component $T_0$, and $r,s$ are two slopes on $T_0$ with $\Delta (r,s)=4$ or 5 such that $M(r)$ and $M(s)$ both contain an essential torus, then $M$ is either one of 14 specific manifolds $M_i$, or obtained from $M_1,M_2,M_3$ or $M_{14}$ by attaching a solid torus to $\partial M_i-T_0$. All the manifolds $M_i$ are hyperbolic, and we show that only the first three can be embedded into $S^3$. As a consequence, this leads to a complete classification of all hyperbolic knots in $S^3$ admitting two toroidal surgeries with distance at least 4.