Incompressible one-sided surfaces in even fillings of figure 8 knot space (Q2881372)

The author studies geometrically incompressible one-sided surfaces in Dehn fillings of the figure 8 knot complement. The existence of such surfaces requires \((2p, q)\) Dehn fillings.NEWLINENEWLINEIt is well-known that for the figure 8 knot complement, almost all Dehn fillings give hyperbolic, non-Haken 3-manifolds. Using the known geometrically incompressible surfaces in the knot complement, the author uses non-orientable surface techniques to classify the closed, geometrically incompressible, one-sided surfaces in the closed manifold obtained by Dehn filling.NEWLINENEWLINEShe shows that every \((2p, q)\) Dehn filling of the figure 8 knot complement, where \(p, q \in \mathbb{Z}\), \(gcd(2p, q) = 1\), and \( (2p, q) \neq (0 , 1), (2, 1), (4, 1), (0 , -1), (2, -1), (4, -1)\) has a unique, geometrically incompressible one-sided splitting surface, which can be identified uniquely by the ratio \(\frac{p}{q}\).