Hyperbolic alternating virtual link groups (Q763710)

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.