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Simplicial structures of knot complements

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It was recently shown that there exists an explicit bound for the number of Pachner moves needed to connect any two triangulation of any Haken 3-manifold which contains no fibred sub-manifolds as strongly simple pieces of its JSJ-decomposition. In this paper we prove a generalisation of that result to all knot complements. The explicit formula for the bound is in terms of the numbers of tetrahedra in the two triangulations. This gives a conceptually trivial algorithm for recognising any knot complement among all 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.math/0306117,
  title  = {Simplicial structures of knot complements},
  author = {Aleksandar Mijatovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306117},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures