Year: 2023
Type: preprint
Abstract: Given two orientable, cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds containing certain thrice-punctured spheres, Adams gave a diagrammatic definition for a third such manifold, their belted sum. Fully augmented links, or FALs, are hyperbolic links constructed by augmenting a link diagram. This work considers belted sum decompositions in which all manifolds involved are FAL complements. To do so, we provide explicit classifications of thrice punctured spheres in FAL complements, making them easily recognizable. These classifications are used to characterize belted sum prime FALs geometrically, combinatorially and diagrammatically. Finally we prove that, in the context of belted sums, every FAL complement canonically decomposes into FALs which are either prime or two-fold covers of the Whitehead link.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: California State University, San Bernardino
Language: English
Subfield: Geometry and Topology
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4388963852