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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 1997-056

Toroidal and annular Dehn fillings

Cameron McA. Gordon and Ying-Qing Wu

Suppose $M$ is a hyperbolic 3-manifold which admits two Dehn fillings $M(r_1)$ and $M(r_2)$ such that $M(r_1)$ contains an essential torus and $M(r_2)$ contains an essential annulus. It is known that $\Delta = \Delta(r_1, r_2) \leq 5$. We will show that if $\Delta = 5$ then $M$ is the Whitehead sister link exterior, and if $\Delta = 4$ then $M$ is the exterior of either the Whitehead link or the 2-bridge link associated to the rational number $3/10$. There are infinitely many examples with $\Delta = 3$.