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Filling Links and Essential Systole

Geometric Topology 2025-05-05 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We answer a question of Freedman and Krushkal, producing filling links in any closed, orientable 3-manifold. The links we construct are hyperbolic, and have large essential systole, contrasting earlier geometric constraints on hyperbolic links in 3-manifolds due to Adams-Reid and Lakeland-Leininger.

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@article{arxiv.2505.00896,
  title  = {Filling Links and Essential Systole},
  author = {Christopher J. Leininger and Yandi Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00896},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages, 8 figures. Comments welcome

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