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Hyperbolic small knots in spherical manifolds

Geometric Topology 2025-06-03 v1

Abstract

It was conjectured by Lopez that every closed irreducible non-Haken 3-manifold contains a small knot. In this paper, we give explicit examples of hyperbolic small knots in most closed orientable spherical 3-manifolds other than prism manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2506.01041,
  title  = {Hyperbolic small knots in spherical manifolds},
  author = {Kazuhiro Ichihara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01041},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure

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