Inflations of ideal triangulations

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.09.001MaRDI QIDQ462286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date 20 October 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6921

zbMATH Keywords

ideal triangulationinflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: Starting with an ideal triangulation of the interior of a compact 3-manifold M with boundary, no component of which is a 2-sphere, we provide a construction, called an inflation of the ideal triangulation, to obtain a strongly related triangulations of M itself. Besides a step-by-step algorithm for such a construction, we provide examples of an inflation of the two-tetrahedra ideal triangulation of the complement of the figure-eight knot in the 3-sphere, giving a minimal triangulation, having ten tetrahedra, of the figure-eight knot exterior. As another example, we provide an inflation of the one-tetrahedron Gieseking manifold giving a minimal triangulation, having seven tetrahedra, of a nonorientable compact 3-manifold with Klein bottle boundary. Several applications of inflations are discussed.

Review text

As summarized in the introduction of the paper persuasively, triangulations play a central role in the study and understanding of \(3\)-manifolds. In [\textit{W. Jaco} and \textit{J. H. Rubinstein}, J. Differ. Geom. 65, No. 1, 61--168 (2003; Zbl 1068.57023)], the authors introduced a technique for crushing a triangulation of a \(3\)-manifold along a normal surface. Later, this was extended to manifolds with boundary, crushing a triangulation along the boundary and arriving at a related ideal triangulation of the interior of the \(3\)-manifold. In this paper, a dual operation for ideal triangulations, called an inflation, is introduced. More precisely, starting from an ideal triangulation of the interior of a compact \(3\)-manifold with boundary, an inflation yields a strongly related triangulation of the compact \(3\)-manifold itself. And crushing along its boundary gives back the original ideal triangulation.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the last part of the paper, two concrete examples of inflations are exhibited. One is that of the two-tetrahedron ideal triangulation of the figure-eight knot complement, and the other one is that of the one-tetrahedron ideal triangulation of the Gieseking manifold, which is a non-orientable \(3\)-manifold doubly covered by the ideal triangulation of the figure-eight knot complement. Applications of inflations will be given in other papers by the same authors.

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