Quasi-alternating links with small determinant
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Author(s)
Lidman, T
Sivek, S
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Quasi-alternating links of determinant 1, 2, 3 and 5 were previously classified by Greene and Teragaito, who showed that the only such links are two-bridge. In this paper, we extend this result by showing that all quasi-alternating links of determinant at most 7 are connected sums of two-bridge links, which is optimal since there are quasi-alternating links not of this form for all larger determinants. We achieve this by studying their branched double covers and characterising distance-one surgeries between lens spaces of small order, leading to a classification of formal L-spaces with order at most 7.
Date Issued
2016-07-14
Date Acceptance
2016-06-01
Citation
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2016, 162 (02), pp.319-336
ISSN
0305-0041
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Start Page
319
End Page
336
Journal / Book Title
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Volume
162
Issue
02
Copyright Statement
© Cambridge Philosophical Society 2016
Subjects
math.GT
57M25, 57M27, 57R58
0101 Pure Mathematics
Publication Status
Published