Upper bounds for volumes of generalized hyperbolic polyhedra and hyperbolic links

Abstract

A polyhedron in a three-dimensional hyperbolic space is said to be generalized if finite, ideal and truncated vertices are admitted. In virtue of Belletti's theorem (2021) the exact upper bound for volumes of generalized hyperbolic polyhedra with the same one-dimensional skeleton $G$ is equal to the volume of an ideal right-angled hyperbolic polyhedron whose one-dimensional skeleton is the medial graph for $G$. In the present paper we give the upper bounds for the volume of an arbitrary generalized hyperbolic polyhedron, where the bonds linearly depend on the number of edges. Moreover, it is shown that the bounds can be improved if the polyhedron has triangular faces and trivalent vertices. As an application there are obtained new upper bounds for the volume of the complement to the hyperbolic link having more than eight twists in a diagram.