The Big Dehn Surgery Graph and the link of 𝑆³
The Big Dehn Surgery Graph and the link of 𝑆³
In a talk at the Cornell Topology Festival in 2004, W. Thurston discussed a graph which we call “The Big Dehn Surgery Graph”, <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="script upper B"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi class="MJX-tex-caligraphic" mathvariant="script">B</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathcal {B}</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>. Here we explore this graph, particularly the …