Hyperbolic alternating virtual link groups (Q763710)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6019680
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    Hyperbolic alternating virtual link groups
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6019680

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      Hyperbolic alternating virtual link groups (English)
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      29 March 2012
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      The article under review studies the geometry of certain link complements. The author identifies two types of forbidden tangles and proves that if a prime, alternating link projection does not contain either of those two tangles then the fundamental group \(G\) of the complement is the fundamental group of a finite, piecewise Euclidean 2-complex of nonpositive curvature. If one assumes that the link projection is dense, then \(G\) is shown to be hyperbolic.
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      alternating virtual knot
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      hyperbolic group
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      Wirtinger complex
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      non-positively curved square complex
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