Computing Boundary Slopes of 2-Bridge Links

Jim Hoste, Patrick Shanahan

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Abstract

We describe an algorithm for computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links. As an example, we work out the slopes of the links obtained by 1/k surgery on one component of the Borromean rings. A table of all boundary slopes of all 2-bridge links with 10 or less crossings is also included.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1521-1545
JournalMathematics of Computation
Volume76
StatePublished - 2007

Disciplines

  • Mathematics

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