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Property P for knots admitting certain Gabai disks (English)
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23 November 2004
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The authors determine a class of knots that have property P, namely they show that a non-trivial, non trefoil knot with a minimal spanning surface admitting two Gabai disks has property P. Their proof uses the theory of essential laminations and Gabai disks. This class of knots contains closed 3-braid knots and knots represented by closed homogeneous braids. Thus, the work of the authors gives a simplified proof of a result of Menasco and Zhang for closed 3-braid knots.
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property P
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lamination
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train track
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Gabai disks
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