Iterated splitting and the classification of knot tunnels

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06520671MaRDI QIDQ2376002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sangbum Cho, Darryl McCullough

Publication date 26 June 2013

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3671, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1366896647

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knottorus knotsplittingtunnelregular(1, 1)2-Bridge

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Abstract: For a genus-1 1-bridge knot in the 3-sphere, that is, a (1,1)-knot, a middle tunnel is a tunnel that is not an upper or lower tunnel for some (1,1)-position. Most torus knots have a middle tunnel, and non-torus-knot examples were obtained by Goda, Hayashi, and Ishihara. In a previous paper, we generalized their construction and calculated the slope invariants for the resulting examples. We give an iterated version of the construction that produces many more examples, and calculate their slope invariants. If one starts with the trivial knot, the iterated constructions produce all the 2-bridge knots, giving a new calculation of the slope invariants of their tunnels. In the final section we compile a list of the known possibilities for the set of tunnels of a given tunnel number 1 knot.

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• Bridge spectra of iterated torus knots
• Middle tunnels by splitting
• Semisimple tunnels

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