Symmetric links and Conway sums: volume and Jones polynomial
Geometric Topology
2014-05-20 v3
Abstract
We obtain bounds on hyperbolic volume for periodic links and Conway sums of alternating tangles. For links that are Conway sums we also bound the hyperbolic volume in terms of the coefficients of the Jones polynomial.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.1542,
title = {Symmetric links and Conway sums: volume and Jones polynomial},
author = {David Futer and Efstratia Kalfagianni and Jessica S. Purcell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.1542},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
18 pages, 7 figures. Revised according to referee's comments. To appear in Mathematical Research Letters.