Divides and hyperbolic volumes

Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Triangulating (57R05) Knot theory (57K10) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32)

Abstract: A divide is the image of a proper and generic immersion of a compact

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-manifold into the

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-disk. Due to A'Campo's theory, each divide is associated with a link in the 3-sphere. In this paper, we reveal a hidden hyperbolic structure in the theory of links of divides. More precisely, we show that the complement of the link of a divide can be obtained by Dehn filling a hyperbolic

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-manifold that admits a decomposition into several ideal regular tetrahedra, octahedra and cuboctahedra, where the number of each of those three polyhedra is determined by types of the double points of the divide. This immediately gives an upper bound of the hyperbolic volume of the links of divides, which is shown to be asymptotically sharp. An idea from the theory of Turaev's shadows plays an important role here.

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