Abstract
Aitchison and Rubinstein showed there are two distinct ways to identify the faces of a pair of regular ideal dodecahedra and obtain a knot complement. This paper shows that these knot complements are the only knot complements that decompose into $$n$$n regular ideal dodecahedra, providing a partial solution to a conjecture of Neumann and Reid. A corollary of the main theorem classifies the hyperbolic knot complements can be decomposed into regular ideal polyhedra.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 299-308 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Geometriae Dedicata |
Volume | 173 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Keywords
- Commensurability
- Dodecahedral knots
- Hidden symmetries