The volume of positive braid links

DOI10.1017/S0305004114000474MaRDI QIDQ5498520zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sebastian Baader

Publication date 9 February 2015

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6614

zbMATH Keywords

signature defectvolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Based on recent work by Futer, Kalfagianni and Purcell, we prove that the volume of sufficiently complicated positive braid links is proportional to the signature defect $Deltasigma=2g-sigma$.

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