VOLUMES OF CHAIN LINKS

DOI10.1142/S0218216512501155MaRDI QIDQ4904850zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

minimal volumehyperbolic manifoldchain links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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|.

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