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arxiv: 1507.04705 · v1 · pith:ZCJEZX3Unew · submitted 2015-07-16 · 🧮 math.GT

Quasi-alternating links with small determinant

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Quasi-alternating links of determinant 1, 2, 3, and 5 were previously classified by Greene and Teragaito, who showed that the only such links are two-bridge. In this paper, we extend this result by showing that all quasi-alternating links of determinant at most 7 are connected sums of two-bridge links, which is optimal since there are quasi-alternating links not of this form for all larger determinants. We achieve this by studying their branched double covers and characterizing distance-one surgeries between lens spaces of small order, leading to a classification of formal L-spaces with order at most 7.

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