Two-sided bounds for the complexity of cyclic branched coverings of two-bridge links

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Authors Carlo Petronio, Andrei Vesnin

Publication date 10 February 2010

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612830, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1260892841

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-fold cyclic branched coverDelzant \(T\)-invarianthyperbolic 3-manifoldMatveev complexitytwo-bridge knot and link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We consider closed orientable 3-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds which are cyclic branched coverings of the 3-sphere, with branching set being a two-bridge knot (or link). We establish two-sided linear bounds depending on the order of the covering for the Matveev complexity of the covering manifold. The lower estimate uses the hyperbolic volume and results of Cao-Meyerhoff and Gueritaud-Futer (who recently improved previous work of Lackenby), while the upper estimate is based on an explicit triangulation, which also allows us to give a bound on the Delzant T-invariant of the fundamental group of the manifold.

Review text

The authors consider closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds \(M\) that arise as cyclic branched coverings of two-bridge knots (or links) in the 3-sphere. For such manifolds the authors establish upper and lower bounds on the Matveev complexity \(c(M)\) [\textit{S. V. Matveev}, Acta Appl. Math. 19, No. 2, 101--130 (1990; Zbl 0724.57012)], which is an integer representing the minimal number of tetrahedra to triangulate \(M\) (The last statement ignores some exceptional cases and uses the word triangulation in a loose sense, namely just a gluing of tetrahedra along faces). One example of the bounds established in the article is the following upper bound: Let \(K\) be the two bridge knot given by \(K(p,q)\) where \(0<q<p\) and \(M_n\) be the meridian-cyclic \(n\)-fold branched cover of \(K(p,q)\) then: \[ c(M_n)\leq n(p-1). \] This inequality also extends to two-bridge links with an appropriate definition of the covering. The authors show the same upper bound for the Delzant \(T\)-invariant of the fundamental group of the manifold [\textit{T. Delzant}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 470, 153--180 (1996; Zbl 0836.20038)].

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