Constructing Bitwisted Face Pairing 3-Manifolds

The bitwist construction, originally discovered by Cannon, Floyd, and Parry, gives us a new method for finding face pairing descriptions of 3-manifolds. In this paper, I will describe the construction in a way suitable for a more general audience than the original research papers. Along the way, I w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ackermann, Robert James
Other Authors: Mathematics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32655
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05122008-202129/