$L^2$-bounds for drilling short geodesics in convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Abstract

We give $L^2$-bounds on the change in the complex projective structure on the boundary of conformally compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with incompressible boundary after drilling short geodesics. We show that the change is bounded by a universal constant times the square root of the length of the drilled geodesics. While $L^\infty$-bounds of this type where obtained by the second author (2004), our bounds here do not depend on the injectivity radius of the boundary.