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Combinatorial Dehn-Lickorish Twists and Framed Link Presentations of 3-Manifolds Revisited

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

From a pseudo-triangulation with nn tetrahedra TT of an arbitrary closed orientable connected 3-manifold (for short, {\em a 3D-space}) M3M^3, we present a gem JJ ', inducing \IS3\IS^3, with the following characteristics: (a) its number of vertices is O(n); (b) it has a set of pp pairwise disjoint couples of vertices {ui,vi}\{u_i,v_i\}, each named {\em a twistor}; (c) in the dual (J)(J ')^\star of JJ ' 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 (J)\IS3(J ')^\star \subset \IS^3, the ϵ\epsilon-neighborhood of each hinge is a solid torus; (e) these pp 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 pp surgeries (at the level of the dual gems) we produce a gem GG ' with G=M3|G '|=M^3; (h) in GG ' each such surgery is accomplished by the interchange of a pair of neighbors in each pair of vertices: in particular, V(G)=V(J)|V(G ')=|V(J ')|. 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 \IS3\IS^3 and opens the way for an algorithmic method to actually obtaining the link by an O(n2)O(n^2)-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}
}