Abstract
We show that for a large class of knots and links with complements in S 3 admitting a hyperbolic structure, we can determine bounds on the volume of the link complement from combinatorial information given by a link diagram. Specifically, there is a universal constant C such that if a knot or link admits a prime, twist reduced diagram with at least 2 twist regions and at least C crossings per twist region, then the link complement is hyperbolic with volume bounded below by 3.3515 times the number of twist regions in the diagram. C is at most 113.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 93-108 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Algebraic and Geometric Topology |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cone manifolds
- Hyperbolic knot complements
- Hyperbolic link complements
- Volume