Volume bounds for generalized twisted torus links

DOI10.4310/MRL.2011.V18.N6.A5zbMATH Open1271.57008arXiv1007.2932MaRDI QIDQ2391563FDOQ2391563

Authors: Abhijit Champanerkar, David Futer, Ilya Kofman, Walter D. Neumann, Jessica S. Purcell 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Twisted torus knots and links are given by twisting adjacent strands of a torus link. They are geometrically simple and contain many examples of the smallest volume hyperbolic knots. Many are also Lorenz links. We study the geometry of twisted torus links and related generalizations. We determine upper bounds on their hyperbolic volumes that depend only on the number of strands being twisted. We exhibit a family of twisted torus knots for which this upper bound is sharp, and another family with volumes approaching infinity. Consequently, we show there exist twisted torus knots with arbitrarily large braid index and yet bounded volume.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2932

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic knothyperbolic volumebraid indexsmallest volumetwisted torus links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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Uses Software

• SnapPy

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