The signature and cusp geometry of hyperbolic knots

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Autores principales: Davies, Alex, Juhász, András, Lackenby, Marc, Tomasev, Nenad
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Publicado: 2021
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author Davies, Alex
Juhász, András
Lackenby, Marc
Tomasev, Nenad
author_facet Davies, Alex
Juhász, András
Lackenby, Marc
Tomasev, Nenad
contents We introduce a new real-valued invariant called the natural slope of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere, which is defined in terms of its cusp geometry. We show that twice the knot signature and the natural slope differ by at most a constant times the hyperbolic volume divided by the cube of the injectivity radius. This inequality was discovered using machine learning to detect relationships between various knot invariants. It has applications to Dehn surgery and to 4-ball genus. We also show a refined version of the inequality where the upper bound is a linear function of the volume, and the slope is corrected by terms corresponding to short geodesics that link the knot an odd number of times.
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spellingShingle The signature and cusp geometry of hyperbolic knots
Davies, Alex
Juhász, András
Lackenby, Marc
Tomasev, Nenad
Geometric Topology
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
57K10, 57K31, 57K32, 68T07
I.2.1
We introduce a new real-valued invariant called the natural slope of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere, which is defined in terms of its cusp geometry. We show that twice the knot signature and the natural slope differ by at most a constant times the hyperbolic volume divided by the cube of the injectivity radius. This inequality was discovered using machine learning to detect relationships between various knot invariants. It has applications to Dehn surgery and to 4-ball genus. We also show a refined version of the inequality where the upper bound is a linear function of the volume, and the slope is corrected by terms corresponding to short geodesics that link the knot an odd number of times.
title The signature and cusp geometry of hyperbolic knots
topic Geometric Topology
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
57K10, 57K31, 57K32, 68T07
I.2.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15323