English

The cat-bat map, the figure-eight knot, and the five orbifolds

Geometric Topology 2024-09-11 v1

Abstract

These are expository notes in which we explain how one can see some exceptional surgeries connecting the suspension of the cat-bat map and the unit tangent bundles to some hyperbolic orbispheres.

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@article{arxiv.2409.06543,
  title  = {The cat-bat map, the figure-eight knot, and the five orbifolds},
  author = {Pierre Dehornoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06543},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages, 27 pictures, to appear in the MATRIX Annals