Bridge number and tangle products

DOI10.2140/AGT.2013.13.1125MaRDI QIDQ1948312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryan Blair

Publication date 3 May 2013

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5640

zbMATH Keywords

bridge numberbridge spheretangle product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that essential punctured spheres in the complement of links with distance three bridge spheres have bounded complexity. We define the operation of tangle product, a generalization of both connected sum and Conway product. Finally, we use the bounded complexity of essential punctured spheres to show that the bridge number of a tangle product is at least the sum of the bridge numbers of the two factor links up to a constant error.

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• TANGLE SUM AND CONSTRUCTIBLE SPHERES
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