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Simplicial volume of links from link diagrams

Geometric Topology 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

The hyperbolic volume of a link complement is known to be unchanged when a half-twist is added to a link diagram, and a suitable 3-punctured sphere is present in the complement. We generalize this to the simplicial volume of link complements by analyzing the corresponding toroidal decompositions. We then use it to prove a refined upper bound for the volume in terms of twists of various lengths for links.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08316,
  title  = {Simplicial volume of links from link diagrams},
  author = {Oliver Dasbach and Anastasiia Tsvietkova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08316},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures