Hyperbolic links associated to Hamiltonian subgraphs in simple $3$-polytopes
Abstract
In a series of papers A.D.Mednykn and A.Yu.Vesnin introduced a construction that for a given right-angled polytope in geometry , , , , and a Hamiltonian cycle, theta-subgraph or -subgraph in the -skeleton of builds a geometric -manifold with an involution such that . The brach set of the corresponding -sheeted branched covering is a link consisting of trivially embedded circles. This construction reformulated in the language of toric topology works for such a subgraph in any simple -polytope and gives a topological -manifold . We give a criterion when has a complete hyperbolic structure of finite volume and generalize this criterion to similar links in -manifolds different from . We prove that hyperbolic links are parametrized by nonselfcrossing Eulerian cycles, Eulerian theta-subgraphs and Eulerian -subgraphs in hyperbolic right-angled -polytopes of finite volume in with , or finite vertices. We give a criterion when the link 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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@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