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2025/106/1-2 (2) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2025.9728 — pp. 29-52

Surgery presentations of cube manifolds reducible to two generators

Authors: Alberto Cavicchioli Orcid.org link for Alberto Cavicchioli and Fulvia Spaggiari Orcid.org link for Fulvia Spaggiari

Abstract:

We derive topological and geometrical properties of cusped connected orientable $3$-manifolds obtained by face pairings of the nonregular cube, which are reducible to two-generator fundamental groups. Besides the polyhedral schemata, we derive geometric presentations of the fundamental group, which correspond to spines of the manifolds. Then, we provide simple surgery descriptions of the considered cube manifolds.

Keywords: finitely generated group, spine, hyperbolic manifold, cube manifold, polyhedral representation, Schlegel diagram, Dehn surgery

Mathematics Subject Classification: 57M05, 57M12, 57M50