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Coloured knots and coloured graphs representing 3-fold simple coverings of %plane1D;54A;3

✍ Scribed by Mari Rita Casali


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
525 KB
Volume
137
Category
Article
ISSN
0012-365X

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✦ Synopsis


It is well-known that every closed orientable 3-manifold M 3 is the 3-fold simple covering M3(K,o)) of S 3 branched over a knot K: hence, M 3 may be visualized by the associated coloured knot (K, co). On the other hand, PL-manifolds of arbitrary dimension may be represented by coloured graphs, via pseudosimplicial triangulations. The present paper produces an algorithm to construct a 4-coloured graph representing M3(K, co), directly 'drawn over' the coloured knot (K, o)).