Ideal points and incompressible surfaces in two-bridge knot complements

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/04610051MaRDI QIDQ1335545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomotada Ohtsuki

Publication date 16 October 1994

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/04610051

zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knotideal pointsincompressible surfacesrepresentation spaceSerre-trees

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Review text

At ideal points of the representation space of the fundamental group \(\Gamma \) of a 3-manifold into \(\text{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{C})\) a tree can be constructed and an action on it. This was used by Culler and Shalen to produce a nontrivial splitting of \(\Gamma\), and this leads to the existence of incompressible surfaces in the 3-manifold. In the case of 2- bridge knot spaces the presentation spaces have been studied by several authors and, on the other hand, the incompressible surfaces in them were determined by Hatcher and Thurston. In this paper the ingredients of the Culler-Shalen construction are investigated in detail in the 2-bridge case, in fact, the ideal points and their trees are described completely using the continued fractions associated with these knots as input. The correspondence between the ideal points and the incompressible surface is verified. This is a very meritorious contribution which offers some insight in the workings of a rather complicated machinery. The paper is not easy to read and assumes rather specific knowledge about the topic.

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