Links with no exceptional surgeries (Q2466959)

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolicity of links and Dehn filling of links in \(S^3\) in terms of the number of crossings and twist regions of link diagrams. The first result that they prove is that a link admitting a prime, twist reduced diagram with at least 2 twist regions (i.e. that it is not a closed 2-braid) each of which contains at least 6 crossings is hyperbolic. Under the same hypothesis, they obtain a lower estimate for the genus of the link, depending on the number of connected components and the number of twist regions. Concerning Dehn filling, the authors prove that if a link \(K\) in \(S^3\) admits a prime, twist-reduced diagram such that each twist region contains at least 6 crossings and each component of \(K\) passes trough at least 7 twist regions (counted with multiplicity) then every non-trivial Dehn filling of all the components of \(K\) is hyperbolike. Recall that a closed connected 3-manifold \(M\) is hyperbolike if it is irreducible, atoroidal, non Seifert fibered and \(\pi_1(M)\) is infinite and word hyperbolic. Via Perelman's proof of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture, an hyperbolike manifold is, indeed, hyperbolic. In the case of a knot, the hypothesis of the previous theorem can be restated as admitting a prime, twist-reduced diagram with at least 4 twist regions each of which contains at least 6 crossings. To prove the statements the authors describe a construction (originally due to \textit{I. Agol} and \textit{D. Thurston} in the appendix of \textit{M. Lackenby} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 88, 204-224 (2004; Zbl 1041.57002)]) that, starting from a prime, twist-reduced diagram of a link \(K\), gives a flat augmented link \(L\) providing a surgery description of \(K\) and whose complement has simple geometrical properties. Then they estimate the length (both the combinatorial one and the geometric one) of the surgery slopes and use results of \textit{I. Agol} [Geom. Topol. 4, 431--449 (2000; Zbl 0959.57009)] and \textit{M. Lackenby} [Invent. Math. 140, 243--282 (2000; Zbl 0947.57016)] assuring that a Dehn filling of a hyperbolic manifold is hyperbolike whenever the length of each surgery slope is sufficiently long.