120 research outputs found
The complement of the figure-eight knot geometrically bounds
We show that some hyperbolic 3-manifolds which are tessellated by copies of
the regular ideal hyperbolic tetrahedron embed geodesically in a complete,
finite volume, hyperbolic 4-manifold. This allows us to prove that the
complement of the figure-eight knot geometrically bounds a complete, finite
volume hyperbolic 4-manifold. This the first example of geometrically bounding
hyperbolic knot complement and, amongst known examples of geometrically
bounding manifolds, the one with the smallest volume.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, improved exposition of
tetrahedral manifolds. Added Proposition 3.3, which gives necessary and
sufficient conditions for M_T to be a manifold, and Remark 4.4, which shows
that the figure-eight knot bounds a 4-manifold of minimal volume. Updated
bibliograph
New hyperbolic 4-manifolds of low volume
We prove that there are at least 2 commensurability classes of minimal-volume
hyperbolic 4-manifolds. Moreover, by applying a well-known technique due to
Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro, we build the smallest known non-arithmetic
hyperbolic 4-manifold.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures. Added the Coxeter diagrams of the
commensurability classes of the manifolds. New and better proof of Lemma 2.2.
Modified statements and proofs of the main theorems: now there are two
commensurabilty classes of minimal volume manifolds. Typos correcte
4-colored graphs and knot/link complements
A representation for compact 3-manifolds with non-empty non-spherical
boundary via 4-colored graphs (i.e., 4-regular graphs endowed with a proper
edge-coloration with four colors) has been recently introduced by two of the
authors, and an initial classification of such manifolds has been obtained up
to 8 vertices of the representing graphs. Computer experiments show that the
number of graphs/manifolds grows very quickly as the number of vertices
increases. As a consequence, we have focused on the case of orientable
3-manifolds with toric boundary, which contains the important case of
complements of knots and links in the 3-sphere. In this paper we obtain the
complete catalogation/classification of these 3-manifolds up to 12 vertices of
the associated graphs, showing the diagrams of the involved knots and links.
For the particular case of complements of knots, the research has been extended
up to 16 vertices.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; changes in Lemma 6, Corollaries 7 and
Asymmetric hyperbolic L-spaces, Heegaard genus, and Dehn filling
An L-space is a rational homology 3-sphere with minimal Heegaard Floer
homology. We give the first examples of hyperbolic L-spaces with no symmetries.
In particular, unlike all previously known L-spaces, these manifolds are not
double branched covers of links in S^3. We prove the existence of infinitely
many such examples (in several distinct families) using a mix of hyperbolic
geometry, Floer theory, and verified computer calculations. Of independent
interest is our technique for using interval arithmetic to certify symmetry
groups and non-existence of isometries of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In the
process, we give examples of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds of Heegaard genus
3 with two distinct lens space fillings. These are the first examples where
multiple Dehn fillings drop the Heegaard genus by more than one, which answers
a question of Gordon.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor changes to intro. v3: accepted
version, to appear in Math. Res. Letter
All the shapes of spaces: a census of small 3-manifolds
In this work we present a complete (no misses, no duplicates) census for
closed, connected, orientable and prime 3-manifolds induced by plane graphs
with a bipartition of its edge set (blinks) up to edges. Blinks form a
universal encoding for such manifolds. In fact, each such a manifold is a
subtle class of blinks, \cite{lins2013B}. Blinks are in 1-1 correpondence with
{\em blackboard framed links}, \cite {kauffman1991knots, kauffman1994tlr} We
hope that this census becomes as useful for the study of concrete examples of
3-manifolds as the tables of knots are in the study of knots and links.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures, 38 references. In this version we introduce
some new material concerning composite manifold
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