JSJ-decompositions of knot and link complements in S^3

zbMATH Open1114.57004arXivmath/0506523MaRDI QIDQ874765FDOQ874765

Ryan D. Budney

Publication date: 10 April 2007

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is a survey of some of the most elementary consequences of the JSJ-decomposition and geometrization for knot and link complements in the 3-sphere. Formulated in the language of graphs, the result is the construction of a bijective correspondence between the isotopy classes of links in $S^3$ and a class of vertex-labelled, finite acyclic graphs, called companionship graphs. This construction can be thought of as a uniqueness theorem for Schubert's `satellite operations.' We identify precisely which graphs are companionship graphs of knots and links respectively. We also describe how a large family of operations on knots and links affects companionship graphs. This family of operations is called `splicing' and includes, among others, the operations of: cabling, connect-sum, Whitehead doubling and the deletion of a component.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506523

zbMATH Keywords

JSJ-decompositionsatellite knotlink

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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