Incompressible punctured tori in the complements of alternating knots (Q1345932)
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Incompressible punctured tori in the complements of alternating knots (English)
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31 July 1995
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The alternating knots which allow an incompressible, boundary incompressible, punctured torus to be properly imbedded in their complements are determined to be the 2-bridge knots which have a continued fraction expansion of length two and the pretzel knots. All of the incompressible tori can be explicitly seen. For 2-bridge knots, the manifolds obtained by performing Dehn surgery on the boundary slopes of these punctured tori are shown to break up along incompressible tori into Seifert-fibred spaces.
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alternating knots
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incompressible, boundary incompressible, punctured torus
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2-bridge knots
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continued fraction expansion of length two
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pretzel knots
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Seifert-fibred spaces
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