Computing Immersed Normal Surfaces in the Figure-Eight Knot Complement (Q4254563)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1310581
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1310581 |
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Computing Immersed Normal Surfaces in the Figure-Eight Knot Complement (English)
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8 December 1999
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3-manifolds
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algorithms
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regular surface
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Computational methods are applied to determine data on the existence of immersed normal surfaces in the figure-eight knot complement. The problem of enumerating surfaces is reduced to enumerating the elements of a permutation group which have certain properties. This problem is transformed into the question of searching a certain graph, for which various strategies are compared. A table enumerating the number of regular surfaces, connected regular surfaces, and orientable regular surfaces in each class is presented. In one class, there is only one regular surface out of nearly 2 billion possibilities. This surface is shown to have the property that each edge disk is of the same type.
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