Totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements II

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  • Colin Adams
  • Hanna Bennett
  • Christopher James Davis
  • Michael Jennings
  • Jennifer Novak
  • Nicholas Perry
  • Eric Schoenfeld
We generalize the results of Adams–Schoenfeld, finding large classes of totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements, each covering a rigid 2-orbifold embedded in some hyperbolic 3-orbifold. In addition, we provide a uniqueness theorem and demonstrate that many knots cannot possess totally geodesic Seifert surfaces by giving bounds on the width invariant in the presence of such a surface. Finally, we utilize these examples to demonstrate that the Six Theorem is sharp for knot complements in the 3-sphere.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Differential Geometry
Volume79
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)1-23
ISSN0022-040X
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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