Immersed Möbius bands in knot complements

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.1059MaRDI QIDQ2175889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark C. Hughes, Seung Won Kim

Publication date 30 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00320

zbMATH Keywords

immersed surfacesknotsMöbius bands

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: We study the 3-dimensional immersed crosscap number of a knot, which is a nonorientable analogue of the immersed Seifert genus. We study knots with immersed crosscap number 1, and show that a knot has immersed crosscap number 1 if and only if it is a nonntrivial $(2p,q)$-torus or $(2p,q)$-cable knot. We show that unlike in the orientable case the immersed crosscap number can differ from the embedded crosscap number by arbitrarily large amounts, and that it is neither bounded below nor above by the 4-dimensional crosscap number. We then use these constructions to find, for any $ngeq2$, an oriented 3-manifold $Y_n$ and class $alph{a}_{n}in{H}_2(Y_n;mathbb{Z}_2)$ such that $alph{a}_n$ can be represented by an immersed $mathbb{RP}^2$, but any embedded representative of $alph{a}_n$ has a component $S$ with $chi(S)leq1-n$.

Recommendations

• Crosscap numbers of torus knots.
• Hyperbolic (1,2)-knots in S^3 with crosscap number two and tunnel number one
• Immersed 2-knots with essential singularity
• Crosscap numbers of pretzel knots
• No immersed 2-knot with at most one self-intersection point has triple point number two or three

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• An algebraic classification of knots in S^3
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• Foliations and the topology of 3-manifolds
• Non-orientable surfaces in orientable 3-manifolds
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Cited in

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• Higher dimensional Möbius bands and their boundaries
• Immersed 2-knots with essential singularity
• Crosscap number two knots in \(S^3\) with \((1,1)\) decompositions
• Diagrams of links and bands on 3-manifold spines and flow-spines

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