Essential loops in taut ideal triangulations

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.487MaRDI QIDQ1986003zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saul Schleimer, Henry Segerman

Publication date 7 April 2020

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03206

zbMATH Keywords

ideal triangulationstautessential loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

Abstract: In this note we combinatorialise a technique of Novikov. We use this to prove that, in a three-manifold equipped with a taut ideal triangulation, any vertical or normal loop is essential in the fundamental group.

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