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The Farey tree and fibrations of the Whitehead link complement

Geometric Topology 2026-07-28 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show a curious connection between an example of dynamical forcing, where an existence of one periodic orbit for a dynamical system forces the existence of other periodic orbits, and the existence of different fibrations of a 3 dimensional manifold. Specifically, we establish a one to one correspondence between fibrations of the Whitehead link complement and the set of `simple orbit pairs' on the torus. The set of orbits is equipped with a complete order coming from a dynamical forcing relation, that corresponds to the Farey tree order of rational numbers. This corresponds to the order of the rational point on a fibered cone of the Whitehead link. For the proof we obtain an explicit description of all monodromies of the different fibrations of the Whitehead link complement.

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@article{arxiv.2607.25194,
  title  = {The Farey tree and fibrations of the Whitehead link complement},
  author = {Tali Pinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.25194},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages, 18 figures