A personal account of the discovery of hyperbolic structures on some knot complements

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2013.01.003zbMATH Open1270.57004arXiv1301.4601OpenAlexW2084276702MaRDI QIDQ355490FDOQ355490

Robert Riley

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I give my view of the early history of the discovery of hyperbolic structures on knot complements from my early work on representations of knot groups into matrix groups to my meeting with William Thurston in 1976. (This article was written by Robert Riley about ten years before his death in 2000 and never submitted for publication. An explanation of why it is being published now and some information about Riley and this article is given in the article by Brin, Jones and Singerman which accompanies this article in this issue of the [journal | arxiv].)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4601

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic structuresknot complements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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