Non-geometric veering triangulations

DOI10.1080/10586458.2015.1005256zbMATH Open1337.57043arXiv1406.6439OpenAlexW2108897619MaRDI QIDQ2801067FDOQ2801067

Authors: Craig Hodgson, Ahmad Issa, Henry Segerman 

Publication date: 19 April 2016

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, Ian Agol introduced a class of "veering" ideal triangulations for mapping tori of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of surfaces punctured along the singular points. These triangulations have very special combinatorial properties, and Agol asked if these are "geometric", i.e. realised in the complete hyperbolic metric with all tetrahedra positively oriented. This paper describes a computer program Veering, building on the program Trains by Toby Hall, for generating these triangulations starting from a description of the homeomorphism as a product of Dehn twists. Using this we obtain the first examples of non-geometric veering triangulations; the smallest example we have found is a triangulation with 13 tetrahedra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6439

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic 3-manifoldsfibered 3-manifoldsgeometric triangulationsveering triangulationsconjugacy problem for mapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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• Veering structures of the canonical decompositions of hyperbolic fibered two-bridge link complements
• Non-Hamiltonian triangulations with distant separating triangles
• Dynamics of veering triangulations: infinitesimal components of their flow graphs and applications
• Non-Euclidean ribbons
• A Survey of the Impact of Thurston’s Work on Knot Theory
• Fibered faces, veering triangulations, and the arc complex
• Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy
• Explicit angle structures for veering triangulations
• Agol cycles of pseudo-Anosov 3-braids
• Geometric triangulations and highly twisted links
• Veering branched surfaces, surgeries, and geodesic flows
• Computing Triangulations of Mapping Tori of Surface Homeomorphisms

Uses Software

• SnapPea
• SnapPy
• Trains
• Snap
• Veering
• Twister

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