Figure-eight knot is always over there
Geometric Topology
2023-10-10 v1
Abstract
It is well-known that complex hyperbolic triangle groups generated by three complex reflections in has 1-dimensional moduli space. Deforming the representations from the classical -Fuchsian one to , that is, when is accidental parabolic, the 3-manifolds at infinity change from a Seifert 3-manifold to the figure-eight knot complement. When is loxodromic, there is an open set associated to , which is a subset of the discontinuous region. We show the quotient space is always the figure-eight knot complement in the deformation process. This gives the topological/geometrical explain that the 3-manifold at infinity of is the figure-eight knot complement. In particular, this confirms a conjecture of Falbel-Guilloux-Will.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.05408,
title = {Figure-eight knot is always over there},
author = {Jiming Ma and Baohua Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05408},
year = {2023}
}