VOLUMES OF CHAIN LINKS

DOI10.1142/S0218216512501155zbMATH Open1275.57027arXiv1107.2865OpenAlexW2962838257MaRDI QIDQ4904850FDOQ4904850

Authors: James F. Kaiser, Jessica S. Purcell, Clint Rollins 

Publication date: 11 February 2013

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Agol has conjectured that minimally twisted n-chain links are the smallest volume hyperbolic manifolds with n cusps, for n at most 10. In his thesis, Venzke mentions that these cannot be smallest volume for n at least 11, but does not provide a proof. In this paper, we give a proof of Venzke's statement for a number of cases. For n at least 60 we use a formula from work of Futer, Kalfagianni, and Purcell to obtain a lower bound for volume. The proof for n between 12 and 25 inclusive uses a rigorous computer computation that follows methods of Moser and Milley. Finally, we prove that the n-chain link with 2m or 2m+1 half-twists cannot be the minimal volume hyperbolic manifold with n cusps, provided n is at least 60 or |m| is at least 8, and we give computational data indicating this remains true for smaller n and |m|.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2865

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal volumehyperbolic manifoldchain links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Proving a manifold to be hyperbolic once it has been approximated to be so
• The minimal volume orientable hyperbolic 2-cusped 3-manifolds
• Minimum volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds

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