Hyperbolicity of arborescent tangles and arborescent links

dc.creatorVolz, Kathleen Reif
dc.date2008-01-30
dc.date2008-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:05:38Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:05:38Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper, we study the hyperbolicity of arborescent tangles and arborescent links. We will explicitly determine all essential surfaces in arborescent tangle complements with non-negative Euler characteristic, and show that given an arborescent tangle T, the complement X(T) is non-hyperbolic if and only if T is a rational tangle, T=Q_m * T' for some m greater than or equal to 1, or T contains Qn for some n greater than or equal to 2. We use these results to prove a theorem of Bonahon and Seibenmann which says that a large arborescent link L is non-hyperbolic if and only if it contains Q2.
dc.description26 pages, 18 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4704
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4704
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/208429
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject11B83
dc.titleHyperbolicity of arborescent tangles and arborescent links
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