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Heegaard splittings and virtually Haken Dehn filling. II

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

We use Heegaard splittings to give a criterion for a tunnel number one knot manifold to be nonfibered and to have large cyclic covers. We also show that a knot manifold satisfying the criterion admits infinitely many virtually Haken Dehn fillings. Using a computer, we apply this criterion to the 2 generator, nonfibered knot manifolds in the cusped Snappea census. For each such manifold M, we compute a number c(M), such that, for any n > c(M), the n-fold cyclic cover of M is large.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-17
Number of pages17
JournalNew York Journal of Mathematics
Volume15
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • 3-manifolds
  • Covering spaces
  • Heegaard splittings
  • Knots
  • Virually haken

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