Filling links and spines in 3-manifolds

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Hauptverfasser: Freedman, Michael, Krushkal, Vyacheslav, Leininger, Christopher J., Reid, Alan W.
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author Freedman, Michael
Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Leininger, Christopher J.
Reid, Alan W.
author_facet Freedman, Michael
Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Leininger, Christopher J.
Reid, Alan W.
contents We introduce and study the notion of filling links in 3-manifolds: a link L is filling in M if for any 1-spine G of M which is disjoint from L, $π_1(G)$ injects into $π_1(M\smallsetminus L)$. A weaker "k-filling" version concerns injectivity modulo k-th term of the lower central series. For each k>1 we construct a k-filling link in the 3-torus. The proof relies on an extension of the Stallings theorem which may be of independent interest. We discuss notions related to "filling" links in 3-manifolds, and formulate several open problems. The appendix by C. Leininger and A. Reid establishes the existence of a filling hyperbolic link in any closed orientable 3-manifold with $π_1(M)$ of rank 2.
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spellingShingle Filling links and spines in 3-manifolds
Freedman, Michael
Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Leininger, Christopher J.
Reid, Alan W.
Geometric Topology
We introduce and study the notion of filling links in 3-manifolds: a link L is filling in M if for any 1-spine G of M which is disjoint from L, $π_1(G)$ injects into $π_1(M\smallsetminus L)$. A weaker "k-filling" version concerns injectivity modulo k-th term of the lower central series. For each k>1 we construct a k-filling link in the 3-torus. The proof relies on an extension of the Stallings theorem which may be of independent interest. We discuss notions related to "filling" links in 3-manifolds, and formulate several open problems. The appendix by C. Leininger and A. Reid establishes the existence of a filling hyperbolic link in any closed orientable 3-manifold with $π_1(M)$ of rank 2.
title Filling links and spines in 3-manifolds
topic Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15644