Combinatorial Dehn-Lickorish Twists and Framed Link Presentations of 3-Manifolds Revisited
Abstract
From a pseudo-triangulation with tetrahedra of an arbitrary closed orientable connected 3-manifold (for short, {\em a 3D-space}) , we present a gem , inducing , with the following characteristics: (a) its number of vertices is O(n); (b) it has a set of pairwise disjoint couples of vertices , each named {\em a twistor}; (c) in the dual of a twistor becomes a pair of tetrahedra with an opposite pair of edges in common, and it is named {\em a hinge}; (d) in any embedding of , the -neighborhood of each hinge is a solid torus; (e) these solid tori are pairwise disjoint; (f) each twistor contains the precise description on how to perform a specific surgery based in a Denh-Lickorish twist on the solid torus corresponding to it; (g) performing all these surgeries (at the level of the dual gems) we produce a gem with ; (h) in each such surgery is accomplished by the interchange of a pair of neighbors in each pair of vertices: in particular, . This is a new proof, {\em based on a linear polynomial algorithm}, of the classical Theorem of Wallace (1960) and Lickorish (1962) that every 3D-space has a framed link presentation in and opens the way for an algorithmic method to actually obtaining the link by an -algorithm. This is the subject of a companion paper soon to be released.
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@article{arxiv.math/0701578,
title = {Combinatorial Dehn-Lickorish Twists and Framed Link Presentations of 3-Manifolds Revisited},
author = {Sostenes Lins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0701578},
year = {2007}
}