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Fundamental groups for torus link complements

Geometric Topology 2019-04-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

For an arbitrary positive integer nn and a pair (p,q)(p, q) of coprime integers, consider nn copies of a torus (p,q)(p,q) knot placed parallel to each other on the surface of the corresponding auxiliary torus: we call this assembly a torus nn-link. We compute economical presentations of knot groups for torus links using the groupoid version of the Seifert--van Kampen theorem. Moreover, the result for an individual torus nn-link is generalized to the case of multiple "nested" torus links, where we inductively include a torus link in the interior (or the exterior) of the auxiliary torus corresponding to the previous link. The results presented here have been useful in the physics context of classifying moduli space geometries of four-dimensional N=2{\mathcal N}=2 superconformal field theories.

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@article{arxiv.1904.10005,
  title  = {Fundamental groups for torus link complements},
  author = {Philip C. Argyres and Dnyanesh P. Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.10005},
  year   = {2019}
}

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25 pages, 5 figures

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