## Geometry & Topology

### Bounds on exceptional Dehn filling

Ian Agol

#### Abstract

We show that for a hyperbolic knot complement, all but at most 12 Dehn fillings are irreducible with infinite word-hyperbolic fundamental group.

#### Article information

Source
Geom. Topol., Volume 4, Number 1 (2000), 431-449.

Dates
Revised: 29 May 2000
Accepted: 11 November 2000
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513883292

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/gt.2000.4.431

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1799796

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0959.57009

#### Citation

Agol, Ian. Bounds on exceptional Dehn filling. Geom. Topol. 4 (2000), no. 1, 431--449. doi:10.2140/gt.2000.4.431. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513883292

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