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Alternating links on nonorientable surfaces and Klein-bottly alternating links

Geometric Topology 2024-12-11 v1

Abstract

It has been known for several decades that classical alternating links in the 3-sphere have nice hyperbolic geometric properties. Recent work generalises such results to give hyperbolic geometry of links with alternating projections onto any surface in very general 3-manifolds. However, the most general results require an orientable projection surface. In this paper, we extend to alternating links on nonorientable projection surfaces. As an application, we study Klein bottly alternating links in prism manifolds, which are a natural generalisation of Adams' toroidally alternating links in lens spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2412.07133,
  title  = {Alternating links on nonorientable surfaces and Klein-bottly alternating links},
  author = {Jessica S. Purcell and Lecheng Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07133},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures