Links on incompressible surfaces and volumes
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| author | Reid, Corbin |
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| contents | We consider volumes of two families of links that have been the focus of recent results on geometry, namely weakly generalised alternating (WGA) links and fully augmented links (FAL). Both have known lower bounds on hyperbolic volume in terms of their diagram combinatorics, but less is known about upper bounds. In fact, Kalfagianni and Purcell recently found a family of WGA knots on a compressible surface for which there can be no upper bounds on volume in terms of twist number. They asked if upper volume bounds always exist on incompressible surfaces. We show the answer is no: we find infinite families of WGA and FALs on incompressible surfaces with no upper bound on volume in terms of twist number. |
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| spellingShingle | Links on incompressible surfaces and volumes Reid, Corbin Geometric Topology 57K32, 57K10, 57K12 We consider volumes of two families of links that have been the focus of recent results on geometry, namely weakly generalised alternating (WGA) links and fully augmented links (FAL). Both have known lower bounds on hyperbolic volume in terms of their diagram combinatorics, but less is known about upper bounds. In fact, Kalfagianni and Purcell recently found a family of WGA knots on a compressible surface for which there can be no upper bounds on volume in terms of twist number. They asked if upper volume bounds always exist on incompressible surfaces. We show the answer is no: we find infinite families of WGA and FALs on incompressible surfaces with no upper bound on volume in terms of twist number. |
| title | Links on incompressible surfaces and volumes |
| topic | Geometric Topology 57K32, 57K10, 57K12 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20620 |