Persistently foliar composite knots

DOI10.2140/AGT.2021.21.2761zbMATH Open1481.57008arXiv1905.04838OpenAlexW3215175183MaRDI QIDQ2059699FDOQ2059699

Charles I. Delman, Rachel Roberts

Publication date: 14 December 2021

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

Abstract: A knot $kappa$ in $S^3$ is persistently foliar if, for each non-trivial boundary slope, there is a co-oriented taut foliation meeting the boundary of the knot complement transversely in a foliation by curves of that slope. For rational slopes, these foliations may be capped off by disks to obtain a co-oriented taut foliation in every manifold obtained by non-trivial Dehn surgery on that knot. We show that any composite knot with a persistently foliar summand is persistently foliar and that any nontrivial connected sum of fibered knots is persistently foliar. As an application, it follows that any composite knot in which each of two summands is fibered or at least one summand is nontorus alternating or Montesinos is persistently foliar. We note that, in constructing foliations in the complements of fibered summands, we build branched surfaces whose complementary regions agree with those of Gabai's product disk decompositions, except for the one containing the boundary of the knot complement. It is this boundary region which provides for persistence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04838

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zbMATH Keywords

taut foliationspineL-spacebranched surfaceL-space knotcomposite knotpersistently foliar knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Knot theory (57K10)

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