Hyperbolic semi-adequate links
arXiv:1311.3008 · doi:10.4310/CAG.2015.v23.n5.a3
Abstract
We provide a diagrammatic criterion for semi-adequate links to be hyperbolic. We also give a conjectural description of the satellite structures of semi-adequate links. One application of our result is that the closures of sufficiently complicated positive braids are hyperbolic links.
25 pages, 9 figures