Thin presentation of knots and lens spaces (Q1408561)

This paper is concerned with thin representations of knots \(K\) in closed \(3\)-manifolds \(M^3\) which produce \(S^3\) by Dehn surgery, for some slope \(\gamma\). If \(M\) does not have a lens space as a connected summand, the authors first prove that all such thin representations, with respect to any spine of \(M\) have only local maxima. If \(M\) is a lens space and \(K\) has an essential thin representation with respect to a given standard spine (of lens space \(M\)) with only local maxima, then they show that \(K\) is a \(0\)-bridge or \(1\)-bridge braid in \(M\); furthermore, they prove minimal intersection between \(K\) and such spines to be at least three, and finally, if the core of the surgery \(K_\gamma\) yields \(S^3\) by \(r\)-Dehn surgery, then they prove the following inequality\,: \(| r | \leq 2g\), where \(g\) is the genus of \(K_\gamma\).