Hyperbolicity of arborescent tangles and arborescent links

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.11.014zbMATH Open1163.57007arXiv0801.4704OpenAlexW2088115425MaRDI QIDQ1009747FDOQ1009747

Authors: Kathleen Reif Volz 

Publication date: 3 April 2009

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the hyperbolicity of arborescent tangles and arborescent links. We will explicitly determine all essential surfaces in arborescent tangle complements with non-negative Euler characteristic, and show that given an arborescent tangle T, the complement X(T) is non-hyperbolic if and only if T is a rational tangle, T=Q_m * T' for some m greater than or equal to 1, or T contains Qn for some n greater than or equal to 2. We use these results to prove a theorem of Bonahon and Seibenmann which says that a large arborescent link L is non-hyperbolic if and only if it contains Q2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4704

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolicityrational tangleshyperbolic manifoldsessential surfacesarborescent links and tangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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