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Hyperbolic links associated to Hamiltonian subgraphs in simple $3$-polytopes

Geometric Topology 2026-05-06 v4 Algebraic Topology Combinatorics

Abstract

In a series of papers A.D.Mednykn and A.Yu.Vesnin introduced a construction that for a given right-angled polytope PP in geometry L3\mathbb L^3, R3\mathbb R^3, S3\mathbb S^3, L2×R\mathbb L^2\times \mathbb R, S2×R\mathbb S^2\times \mathbb R and a Hamiltonian cycle, theta-subgraph or K4K_4-subgraph Γ\Gamma in the 11-skeleton of PP builds a geometric 33-manifold N(P,Γ)N(P,\Gamma) with an involution τ\tau such that N(P,Γ)/τS3N(P,\Gamma)/\langle\tau\rangle\simeq S^3. The brach set of the corresponding 22-sheeted branched covering N(P,Γ)S3N(P,\Gamma)\to S^3 is a link CΓS3C_\Gamma\subset S^3 consisting of trivially embedded circles. This construction reformulated in the language of toric topology works for such a subgraph Γ\Gamma in any simple 33-polytope PP and gives a topological 33-manifold N(P,Γ)N(P,\Gamma). We give a criterion when S3CΓS^3\setminus C_\Gamma has a complete hyperbolic structure of finite volume and generalize this criterion to similar links in 33-manifolds different from S3S^3. We prove that hyperbolic links CΓC_\Gamma are parametrized by nonselfcrossing Eulerian cycles, Eulerian theta-subgraphs and Eulerian K4K_4-subgraphs in hyperbolic right-angled 33-polytopes of finite volume in L3\mathbb L^3 with 00, 22 or 44 finite vertices. We give a criterion when the link CΓC_\Gamma consists of mutually unlinked circles and prove that if such a link is nontrivial, then it contains the Borromean rings. The latter problem is motivated by the Efimov effect in quantum mechanics.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.03017,
  title  = {Hyperbolic links associated to Hamiltonian subgraphs in simple $3$-polytopes},
  author = {Nikolai Erokhovets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03017},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

31 pages, 14 figures. Criterion when a link is hyperbolic is added