On diagrammatic bounds of knot volumes and spectral invariants

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9442-6zbMATH Open1208.57006arXiv0901.0119OpenAlexW3103134911MaRDI QIDQ5961888FDOQ5961888

Authors: David Futer, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Jessica S. Purcell 

Publication date: 16 September 2010

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In recent years, several families of hyperbolic knots have been shown to have both volume and $lambd{a}_1$ (first eigenvalue of the Laplacian) bounded in terms of the twist number of a diagram, while other families of knots have volume bounded by a generalized twist number. We show that for general knots, neither the twist number nor the generalized twist number of a diagram can provide two-sided bounds on either the volume or $lambd{a}_1$. We do so by studying the geometry of a family of hyperbolic knots that we call double coil knots, and finding two-sided bounds in terms of the knot diagrams on both the volume and on $lambd{a}_1$. We also extend a result of Lackenby to show that a collection of double coil knot complements forms an expanding family iff their volume is bounded.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0119

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zbMATH Keywords

twist numberknot volumeexpanding familygeneralized twist number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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