By work of W Thurston, knots and links in the
–sphere
are known to either be torus links; or to contain an essential sphere
or torus in their complement; or to be hyperbolic, in which case a
unique hyperbolic volume can be calculated for their complement. We
employ a construction of Turaev to associate a family of hyperbolic
–manifolds
of finite volume to any classical or virtual link, even if nonhyperbolic. These are in turn used
to define the
Turaev volume of a link, which is the minimal volume among all the hyperbolic
–manifolds
associated via this Turaev construction. In the case of a classical link, we can also define
the
classical Turaev volume, which is the minimal volume among all the hyperbolic
–manifolds
associated via this Turaev construction for the classical projections only. We then
investigate these new invariants.
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