Generalized bipyramids and hyperbolic volumes of alternating k-uniform tiling links

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2019.107045MaRDI QIDQ2293012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Aaron Calderon, Nathaniel Mayer, Colin Adams

Publication date 6 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00432

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic volumetiling linksvolume density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We present explicit geometric decompositions of the hyperbolic complements of alternating $k$-uniform tiling links, which are alternating links whose projection graphs are $k$-uniform tilings of $S^2$, $mathbb{E}^2$, or $mathbb{H}^2$. A consequence of this decomposition is that the volumes of spherical alternating $k$-uniform tiling links are precisely twice the maximal volumes of the ideal Archimedean solids of the same combinatorial description, and the hyperbolic structures for the hyperbolic alternating tiling links come from the equilateral realization of the $k$-uniform tiling on $mathbb{H}^2$. In the case of hyperbolic tiling links, we are led to consider links embedded in thickened surfaces $S_{g}imesI$ with genus $gge2$ and totally geodesic boundaries. We generalize the bipyramid construction of Adams to truncated bipyramids and use them to prove that the set of possible volume densities for all hyperbolic links in $S_{g}imesI$, ranging over all $gge2$, is a dense subset of the interval $[0,2v_{e}xtoct]$, where $v_{e}xtoctapprox3.66386$ is the volume of the ideal regular octahedron.

Review text

Let \(X\) be either the sphere, the Euclidean plane or the hyperbolic plane. A \(k\)-uniform tiling is an edge-to-edge tiling of \(X\) by polygons, whose symmetry group is cocompact and has \(k\) transitivity classes of vertices. By Selberg's Lemma, the symmetry group has a torsion-free, cocompact subgroup \(\Gamma\), and \(\Gamma\backslash X\) inherits a tiling. For \(k\)-uniform tilings which are \(3\)- or \(4\)-regular (or have a mix of \(3\)- and \(4\)-valent vertices such that there exists a collection of edges which pairs the \(3\)-valent vertices), the authors study a construction of an alternating link in the thickened surface \(S_g\times I\) where \(S_g\) is a finite covering of \(\Gamma\backslash X\), such that the link projects to the tiling. (Clearly, \(g\ge 2\) if \(X\) is the hyperbolic plane, \(g=1\) if \(X\) is the Euclidean plane.) These links are called tiling links. For \(g\ge 1\), the complement of a tiling link in \(S_g\times I\) is hyperbolic, and for \(g\ge 2\) it is hyperbolic with totally geodesic boundary \(S_g\times\left\{0,1\right\}\). The authors prove that for \(g\ge 1\) the complement of a tiling link in \(S_g\times I\) has a decomposition into generalized (i.e., ideal or truncated) octahedra, the number of which equals the crossing number \(c(L)\) of the link. Each of the generalized octahedra has two vertices on \(L\) and the other vertices are either ideal (if \(g=1\)) or truncated (if \(g\ge 2\)). The dihedral angles of the decomposition are specified by the angles of the tiling. The authors study the relation between volume and dihedral angles to get information on the volume \(\mathrm{vol}(L)\) of the link complement (as a hyperbolic manifold with totally geodesic boundary). The main result of the paper is that the volume densities vol(L)/c(L) of tiling links (across all genera \(g\ge 2\)) form a dense subset of \(\left[0,2v_{\mathrm{oct}}\right]\), where \(v_{\mathrm{oct}}=3,663\ldots\) is the volume of the regular ideal octahedron.

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