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1-efficient triangulations and the index of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold

Geometric Topology 2016-01-20 v1

Abstract

In this paper we will promote the 3D index of an ideal triangulation T of an oriented cusped 3-manifold M (a collection of q-series with integer coefficients, introduced by Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov) to a topological invariant of oriented cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. To achieve our goal we show that (a) T admits an index structure if and only if T is 1-efficient and (b) if M is hyperbolic, it has a canonical set of 1-efficient ideal triangulations related by 2-3 and 0-2 moves which preserve the 3D index. We illustrate our results with several examples.

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@article{arxiv.1303.5278,
  title  = {1-efficient triangulations and the index of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Craig D. Hodgson and J. Hyam Rubinstein and Henry Segerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5278},
  year   = {2016}
}

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60 pages, 27 figures