In the present paper, we construct a cusped hyperbolic 4‐manifold with all cusp sections homeomorphic to the Hantzsche–Wendt manifold, which is a rational homology sphere. By a result of Golénia and Moroianu, the Laplacian on 2‐forms on such a manifold has purely discrete spectrum. This shows that one of the main results of Mazzeo and Phillips from 1990 cannot hold without additional assumptions on the homology of the cusps. This also answers a question by Golénia and Moroianu from 2012.
We also correct and refine the incomplete classification of compact orientable flat 3‐manifolds arising from cube colourings provided earlier by the last two authors.
In this paper we provide the first examples of arithmetic hyperbolic
3
3
–manifolds that are rational homology spheres and bound geometrically either compact or cusped hyperbolic
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–manifolds.
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