Mutation and volumes of knots inS3
Mutation and volumes of knots inS3
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S3 中结的突变和体积
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10.1007/bf01389038
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发表时间:
1987
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3.1
通讯作者:
Daniel Ruberman
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作者:
Daniel Ruberman
Knots in S 3 can be decomposed into simpler pieces in several different ways. The most basic is by connected sum into prime pieces; such a decomposition is unique. Further, it is easy to understand the contribution of each summand to any knot invariant one might wish to compute. Another splitting of knots occurs when a 2-sphere (called a Conway sphere) in S 3 hits the knot transversally in four points. The resulting splitting into so-called tangles has proved quite fruitful in various investigations [7, 8, 22, 6] of symmetries and other properties of knots. Given a Conway sphere, there is an operation called mutation which yields a new knot. Roughly speaking, one takes out the tangle, flips it over and glues it back in. The resulting knot tends to differ from the original one, unless the tangle on one side was symmetric [6]. However, many invariants of a knot are preserved by mutation [7], eg the signature and Alexander polynomial, as well as the new two-variable knot polynomial [12]. In this paper we show that the Gromov norm (see below) of a knot and its mutant coincide. In particular if S3--K is a hyperbolic manifold then S3-mutant of K is as well, and their volumes are the same. These results are instances of a more general theorem which shows that Gromov's norm is preserved by certain kinds of cutting and pasting along surfaces. By using the torus decomposition of a general 3-manifold, one reduces the problem to understanding what happens for hyperbolic manifolds. For the case of a hyperbolic manifold we show that for certain surfaces F c M and symmetries r of F, cutting M along F and regluing via z results in a new hyperbolic manifold M'with vol (M)--vol (M'). Colin Adams [1] has proved a similar result for the special case of a thrice-punctured sphere in M. Our basic method can be extended to show that for Dehn surgeries on a knot which produce hyperbolic manifolds, the volume is the same for the corresponding surgeries on the mutant knot. We also give a similar result about the volumes of the branched cyclic covers of the knot and its mutant. In a future paper, we will consider the effect of this sort of cutting and pasting on the Chern-Simons invariant and~/-invariant of hyperbolic manifolds.In the course of the proof of the theorem concerning hyperbolic manifolds, we need to use the results of [I1] on embeddedness and intersections of least area surfaces. The theorems of [11] deal only with the compact case, and we need their analogues in the case of finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds. These
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发表时间:
2008
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S.Albeverio;S.Liang;S.Liang;T.Nakanishi;中西敏浩;名和範人;服部哲弥;服部哲弥;名和範人;服部久美子;中西敏浩
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中西敏浩