Bridge and pants complexities of knots

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDS030MaRDI QIDQ4907976zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Zupan

Publication date 27 February 2013

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3019

zbMATH Keywords

bridge splittinghyperbolic volumepants distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We modify an approach of Johnson to define the distance of a bridge splitting of a knot in a 3-manifold using the dual curve complex and pants complex of the bridge surface. This distance can be used to determine a complexity, which becomes constant after a sufficient number of stabilizations and perturbations, yielding an invariant of the manifold-knot pair. We also give evidence toward the relationship between the pants distance of a bridge splitting and the hyperbolic volume of the exterior of a knot.

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