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Oct 14 at 20:36 vote accept T ghosh
Oct 14 at 20:24 comment added T ghosh @MoisheKohan now I got your point. So, $\mathbb{Z}\oplus \mathbb{Z}$ can't come as a knot group. Thanks
Oct 14 at 20:19 comment added T ghosh @MoisheKohan 1st homology group of knot complement is $\mathbb{Z}$
Oct 14 at 19:48 comment added Moishe Kohan Did you take an algebraic topology class before trying to learn knot theory and hyperbolic geometry? A standard exercise in algebraic topology is to compute homology of a knot complement. Can you do this?
Oct 14 at 18:14 comment added HJRW @Tghosh: no commuting lair of loxodromics can generate a subgroup that acts properly on hyperbolic space. You need to understand this basic exercise if you want to understand the answer to your question.
Oct 14 at 18:07 comment added T ghosh @MoisheKohan Why can't $\mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z}$ come as a knot group? If we take $\mathbb{H}^3/\mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z}$ then what problem will arise?
Oct 14 at 17:48 comment added Moishe Kohan Noncommuting generators is automatic, since the only commutative knot groups are $\mathbb Z$, the fundamental group of the unknot. Similarly, if $M$ is a complete hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume, then its fundamental group is never commutative.
Oct 14 at 17:31 comment added T ghosh @MoisheKohan Thank you so much pointing out mistakes, I am new in this area, I very recently started learning cusp hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Noncommutative generators: I mean generators do not commute each other. How I will get always loxodromic generators?
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Oct 14 at 15:57 comment added Moishe Kohan Your writing is unclear. What do you mean by "noncommutative generators"? I know what "noncommuting" means and standard parabolic generators of the figure 8 knot group do not commute. And any nonelementary 2-generated Kleinian group admits a 2-generating set both elements of which are loxodromic.
Oct 14 at 15:55 comment added Lee Mosher Cross posted on math.stackexchange.
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