English

3-manifold spine cyclic presentations with seldom seen Whitehead graphs

Geometric Topology 2025-04-07 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We consider a family of cyclic presentations and show that, subject to certain conditions on the defining parameters, they are spines of closed 3-manifolds. These are new examples where the reduced Whitehead graphs are of the same type as those of the Fractional Fibonacci presentations; here the corresponding manifolds are often (but not always) hyperbolic. We also express a lens space construction in terms of a class of positive cyclic presentations that are spines of closed 3-manifolds. These presentations then furnish examples where the Whitehead graphs are of the same type as those of the positive cyclic presentations of type Z\mathfrak{Z}, as considered by McDermott.

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@article{arxiv.2408.17125,
  title  = {3-manifold spine cyclic presentations with seldom seen Whitehead graphs},
  author = {Gerald Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17125},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages, 9 figures, Accepted Manuscript

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