A projective plane in R^ 4 with three critical points is standard. Strongly invertible knots have property P

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(88)90030-4MaRDI QIDQ1124170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven A. Bleiler, Martin Scharlemann

Publication date 1988

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(88)90030-4

zbMATH Keywords

attaching a band to the unknotcritical pointprojective plane in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 4\)property Pstrongly invertible knotstrivial band with a half twist

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

Review text

The main result of this paper is that if one gets the unknot by attaching a band to the unknot, then the band is a trivial band with a half twist. The proof uses variations on the combinatorics of the intersection of planar surfaces developed by the second author [Invent. Math. 79, 125-141 (1985; Zbl 0559.57019) and ibid. 82, 37-55 (1985; Zbl 0576.57004)] and which have turned out to be very important elsewhere in 3-manifold topology - e.g. in the solution of the knot complement problem and in the cyclic surgery theorem. The theorems of the title are derived as consequences.

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