When surgery on a knot in a 3-manifold reduces the Thurston norm of a homology class or yields a reducible manifold, we prove that the knot can often be isotoped away from a given surface in the manifold. As applications of this result, we extend Scharlemann's theorem that unknotting number one knots in the 3-sphere are prime. We also examine the surgical properties of knots which can be unknotted by generalized crossing changes. We investigate when a generalized crossing change yields a split link. Finally, we prove that fibred knots in the 3-sphere cannot be unknotted by certain generalized crossing changes.
- Upper bounds in the theory of unknotting operations
- Knot adjacency and satellites.
- Crossing changes
- Unknotting number, genus and companion tori
- Links with splitting number one
- Dehn surgeries that yield fibred 3-manifolds
- KNOTS, SATELLITE OPERATIONS AND INVARIANTS OF FINITE ORDER
- Band-taut sutured manifolds
- Dehn surgery on knots in 3-manifolds
- LINKS WITH UNLINKING NUMBER ONE AND CONWAY POLYNOMIALS
- Exceptional surgeries on knots with exceptional classes
- Unknotting operations for fibered knots and pseudo-fiber surfaces
- SURGERY n-TRIVIALITY AND COMPANION TORI
- The prism manifold realization problem III
- Effective bounds on characterising slopes for all knots
- Fibered links and unknotting operations
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