We classify all the non-hyperbolic Dehn fillings of the complement of the chain link with three components, conjectured to be the smallest hyperbolic 3-manifold with three cusps. We deduce the classification of all non-hyperbolic Dehn fillings of infinitely many one-cusped and two-cusped hyperbolic manifolds, including most of those with smallest known volume.Among other consequences of this classification, we mention the following:• for every integer n, we can prove that there are infinitely many hyperbolic knots in S 3 having exceptional surgeries {n, n + 1, n + 2, n + 3}, with n + 1, n + 2 giving small Seifert manifolds and n, n + 3 giving toroidal manifolds.• we exhibit a two-cusped hyperbolic manifold that contains a pair of inequivalent knots having homeomorphic complements.• we exhibit a chiral 3-manifold containing a pair of inequivalent hyperbolic knots with orientation-preservingly homeomorphic complements.• we give explicit lower bounds for the maximal distance between small Seifert fillings and any other kind of exceptional filling.
IntroductionWe study in this paper the Dehn fillings of the complement N of the chain link with three components in S 3 , shown in figure 1. The hyperbolic structure of N was first constructed by Thurston in his notes [28], and it was also noted there that the volume of N is particularly small. The relevance of N to three-dimensional topology comes from the fact that by filling N , one gets most of the hyperbolic manifolds known and most of the interesting non-hyperbolic fillings of cusped hyperbolic manifolds. For these reasons N was called the "magic manifold" by Gordon and Wu [14,17]. It appears as M 6 3 1 in [6] and it is the hyperbolic manifold with three cusps of smallest known volume and of smallest complexity [1]. (We refer here to the complexity defined by Matveev in [23], and we mean that N has an ideal triangulation with six tetrahedra, while all other hyperbolic manifolds 969