Spaces of knots in the solid torus, knots in the thickened torus, and links in the 3-sphere

DOI10.1007/S10711-021-00633-YMaRDI QIDQ2230994zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Havens, Robin Koytcheff

Publication date 29 September 2021

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03192

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphismsGramain loopJSJ decompositionknots in solid torusknots in thickened toruslink symmetrieslinks in 3-spheresatellite decompositionspaces of knotsspaces of linkssplicing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12) Other geometric structures on 3-manifolds (57K35) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10)

Abstract: We recursively determine the homotopy type of the space of any irreducible framed link in the 3-sphere, modulo rotations. This leads us to the homotopy type of the space of any knot in the solid torus, thus answering a question posed by Arnold. We similarly study spaces of unframed links in the 3-sphere, modulo rotations, and spaces of knots in the thickened torus. The subgroup of meridional rotations splits as a direct factor of the fundamental group of the space of any framed link except the unknot. Its generators can be viewed as generalizations of the Gramain loop in the space of long knots. Taking the quotient by certain such rotations relates the spaces we study. All of our results generalize previous work of Hatcher and Budney. We provide many examples and explicitly describe generators of fundamental groups.

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