Hyperbolic semi-adequate links

David Futer, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Jessica Shepherd Purcell

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Abstract

We provide a diagrammatic criterion for semi-adequate links to be hyperbolic. We also give a conjectural description of the satellite structures of semi-adequate links. One application of our result is that the closures of sufficiently complicated positive braids are hyperbolic links.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)993-1030
Number of pages38
JournalCommunications in Analysis and Geometry
Volume23
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

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