Computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links

2005/05/20 by Jim Hoste, Hoste, Jim, Patrick D. Shanahan +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis #math.CO #math.GT #msc:57M25

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0505442

26 pages, 10 figures

arxiv created 2005/05/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We describe an algorithm for computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links. As an example, we work out the slopes of the links obtained by 1/k surgery on one component of the Borromean rings. A table of all boundary slopes of all 2-bridge links with 10 or less crossings is also included.

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