Counting surface subgroups in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
This paper establishes that the number of quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups in finite-volume noncompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds grows asymptotically as , a result that implies a similar lower bound for purely pseudo-Anosov surface subgroups in mapping class groups, while also demonstrating the existence of infinitely many conjugacy classes of surface subgroups with accidental parabolics.