Computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-07-01936-9MaRDI QIDQ3433768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

Publication date 2 May 2007

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505442

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knotlinkboundary slope2-bridge

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Abstract: We describe an algorithm for computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links. As an example, we work out the slopes of the links obtained by 1/k surgery on one component of the Borromean rings. A table of all boundary slopes of all 2-bridge links with 10 or less crossings is also included.

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