The two-eyes lemma: a linking problem for table-top necklaces

DOI10.1007/S00373-021-02439-XzbMATH Open1484.52012arXiv1805.02119OpenAlexW4210811971WikidataQ124937344 ScholiaQ124937344MaRDI QIDQ2115141FDOQ2115141

Robert Meyerhoff, A. Yarmola, David Gabai

Publication date: 15 March 2022

Published in: Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the course of our work on low-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds, we came upon a linking problem for horoball necklaces in $mathbb{H}^3$. A horoball necklace is a collection of sequentially tangent beards (i.e. spheres) with disjoint interiors lying on a flat table (i.e. a plane) such that each bead is of diameter at most one and is tangent to the table. In this note, we analyze the possible configurations of an 8-bead necklace linking around two other diameter-one spheres on the table. We show that all the beads are forced to have diameter one, the two linked spheres are tangent, and that each bead must kiss (i.e. be tangent to) at least one of the two linked spheres. In fact, there is a 1-parameter family of distinct configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02119

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zbMATH Keywords

horoballpackingsphereshyperbolic 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32)

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