Regina - Supporting Data

This page provides supporting data that complements Regina, including topology data files and explanatory documents.

Census data
Related articles and PhD thesis
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Census Data

Included in the Regina distribution are topology data files for several different censuses of triangulations.

Typically you will not need to download any of these files separately. You can find them by:

On this page you can find some additional census data files that are too large to ship with Regina. You can also find the usual data files that are normally shipped, which may help users with stripped-down installations or older versions of Regina that did not include them.

Each data file includes a text packet containing a full description of the census as well as its origin and literary references where appropriate. Data from external sources (such as the hyperbolic census data shipped with SnapPea) have been converted into Regina data files.

Census Origin Download Size (kB)
Closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds (3000 orientable, 18 non-orientable) Tabulated by Hodgson and Weeks, shipped with SnapPea 3.0d3 closed-hyp-census.rga 365
Closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds (10986 orientable, 18 non-orientable; not shipped with Regina due to size constraints) closed-hyp-census-large.rga 1503
Closed orientable prime minimal triangulations (<= 9 tetrahedra) Tabulated by Burton using Regina (see the notes below) closed-or-census.rga 137
Closed orientable prime minimal triangulations (<= 10 tetrahedra) closed-or-census-large.rga 446
Closed orientable prime minimal triangulations (<= 11 tetrahedra; not shipped with Regina due to size constraints) closed-or-census-11.rga 1607
Closed non-orientable minimal P2-irreducible triangulations (<= 11 tetrahedra) closed-nor-census.rga 147
Cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds (<= 7 tetrahedra) Tabulated by Callahan, Hildebrand and Weeks, shipped with SnapPea 3.0d3 snappea-census.rga 214
Knot complements (<= 11 crossings) and link complements (<= 10 crossings) Tabulated by Christy, shipped with Snap 1.9 knot-link-census.rga 132
Splitting surface signatures with enclosing closed 3-manifold triangulations (<= 7 tetrahedra) Tabulated by Burton using Regina sig-3mfd-census.rga 58
Splitting surface signatures with enclosing closed prime minimal 3-manifold triangulations (<= 8 tetrahedra) sig-prime-min-census.rga 3
All splitting surface signatures (order <= 8). These are plain text files containing signatures only. Note that only order <= 7 is shipped with Regina due to size constraints. Files for order >= 7 are bzipped; the bzip2 utility can be used to uncompress them. 1.sig 0.007
2.sig 0.03
3.sig 0.2
4.sig 1
5.sig 8
6.sig 86
7.sig.bz2 188
8.sig.bz2 2572

Notes:

Where Regina's censuses overlap those of the authors listed above, the results agree completely.

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Related Articles and PhD Thesis

The following papers either make significant use of Regina or describe some of the algorithms that it implements.

The author's PhD thesis contains detailed descriptions of many of the topological structures, concepts and algorithms used in Regina. It can be downloaded in either of the following formats.

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