Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volume 23 (2015)

Number 5

Hyperbolic semi-adequate links

Pages: 993 – 1030

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CAG.2015.v23.n5.a3

Authors

David Futer (Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)

Efstratia Kalfagianni (Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., U.S.A.)

Jessica S. Purcell (Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.)

Abstract

We provide a diagrammatic criterion for semi-adequate links to be hyperbolic. We also give a conjectural description of the satellite structures of semi-adequate links. One application of our result is that the closures of sufficiently complicated positive braids are hyperbolic links.

Published 1 February 2016