The Big Dehn Surgery Graph and the link of $S^3$
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- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Ser. B 2 (2015), 17-34
Abstract:
In a talk at the Cornell Topology Festival in 2004, W. Thurston discussed a graph which we call “The Big Dehn Surgery Graph”, $\mathcal {B}$. Here we explore this graph, particularly the link of $S^3$, and prove facts about the geometry and topology of $\mathcal {B}$. We also investigate some interesting subgraphs and pose what we believe are important questions about $\mathcal {B}$.References
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Additional Information
- Neil R. Hoffman
- Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
- MR Author ID: 813377
- Email: nhoffman@ms.unimelb.edu.au
- Genevieve S. Walsh
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Bromfield-Pearson Hall, Medford, MA, USA
- MR Author ID: 720923
- Email: genevieve.walsh@tufts.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 25, 2015
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 5, 2015, and July 29, 2015
- Published electronically: November 13, 2015
- Communicated by: Martin Scharlemann
- © Copyright 2015 by the authors under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0)
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Ser. B 2 (2015), 17-34
- MSC (2010): Primary 57M25; Secondary 57M50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bproc/20
- MathSciNet review: 3422666
Dedicated: Dedicated to Bill Thurston