All finitely presentable groups from link complements and Kleinian groups
Geometric Topology
2010-08-10 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
We prove that every finitely presentable group G arises as the fundamental group of an orientable 3-complex obtained from a hyperbolic link complement, by coning each boundary torus of the link exterior to a distinct point. We define the closed-link-genus, clg(G), of any finitely presentable group G, which completely characterizes fundamental groups of closed orientable 3-manifolds: clg(G)=0 if and only if G is the fundamental group of a closed orientable 3-manifold. Moreover clg(G) gives an upper bound for the concept `genus(G)' of genus defined earlier by Aitchison and Reeves, and in turn is bounded by the minimal number of relations among all finite presentations of G.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.1311,
title = {All finitely presentable groups from link complements and Kleinian groups},
author = {Iain R. Aitchison},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1311},
year = {2010}
}
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18 pages, 4 figures