Triangulating a Cappell-Shaneson knot complement (Q2391649): Difference between revisions

An ideal 3-simplex is a 3-simplex with its four vertices removed and an ideal triangulation of a 3-manifold is a collection of ideal 3-simplices with their faces glued together in pairs. Thurston introduced ideal triangulations by constructing an ideal triangulation of the complement, in \(S^3\), of the figure-8 knot by gluing two ideal tetrahedra along their faces. Pursuing this idea, the authors in the present article give an ideal triangulation \(M\) of a 4-manifold by using only two 4-simplices and prove that \(M\) is the complement of a knotted 2-sphere; which is actually a Cappell-Shaneson knot, embedded in the 4-sphere. It is also shown that \(M\) is the interior of a compact manifold with boundary, PL-equivalent to \(S^1\) \(\times\) \(S^2\).