Symmetry groups of hyperbolic links and their complements
Geometric Topology
2025-04-07 v2
Abstract
We explicitly construct a sequence of hyperbolic links where the number of symmetries of each that are not induced by symmetries of the pair grows linearly with n. Specifically, as . For this construction, we start with a family of minimally twisted chain links, , where and coincide and grow linearly with . We then perform a particular type of homeomorphism on to produce another link complement where we can uniformly bound using a combinatorial condition based on linking number. A more general result highlighting how to control symmetry groups of hyperbolic links is provided, which has potential for further application.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.17616,
title = {Symmetry groups of hyperbolic links and their complements},
author = {Christian Millichap and Rolland Trapp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17616},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in The Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications