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An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements
Thistlethwaite, Morwen1 ; Tsvietkova, Anastasiia2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
2Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 14 (2014) no. 3, pp. 1307-1337
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An alternative method is described for determining the hyperbolic structure on a link complement, and some of its elementary consequences are examined. The method is particularly suited to alternating links.

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2014.14.1307
Classification : 57M25, 57M50
Keywords: classical link, hyperbolic structure, tangle

Thistlethwaite, Morwen  1   ; Tsvietkova, Anastasiia  2

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
2 Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA 
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Thistlethwaite, Morwen; Tsvietkova, Anastasiia. An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 14 (2014) no. 3, pp. 1307-1337. doi: 10.2140/agt.2014.14.1307

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