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Bipyramid Decompositions of Multi-crossing Link Complements

Geometric Topology 2017-10-12 v2

Abstract

Generalizing previous constructions, we present a dual pair of decompositions of the complement of a link L into bipyramids, given any multi-crossing projection of L. When L is hyperbolic, this gives new upper bounds on the volume of L given its multi-crossing projection. These bounds are realized by three closely related infinite tiling weaves.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03830,
  title  = {Bipyramid Decompositions of Multi-crossing Link Complements},
  author = {Colin Adams and Gregory Kehne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03830},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Changed proofs of Theorem 1, 2 and 4. Added illustrations, updated bibliography