Bounds on numerical boundary slopes for Montesinos knots

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Authors Kazuhiro Ichihara, Shigeru Mizushima

Publication date 22 February 2008

Published in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503190

zbMATH Keywords

boundary slopecabling conjectureMontesinos knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We give (1) an upper bound on the denominators of numerical boundary slopes and (2) an upper bound on the differences between two numerical boundary slopes, for Montesinos knot exteriors.

Review text

For Montesinos knots, some properties of boundary slopes are studied. \textit{Allen E. Hatcher} and \textit{U. Oertel} [Topology 28, No.~4, 453--480 (1989; Zbl 0686.57006)] gave an algorithm to list all essential surfaces for a given Montesinos knot, developing the argument in \textit{Allen E. Hatcher} and \textit{W. Thurston} [Invent. Math. 79, 225--246 (1985; Zbl 0602.57002)]. This algorithm was also implemented by Dunfield. The first result shows that for a given non-meridional boundary slope \(P/Q\), if \(F\) is an essential surface properly embedded in the knot exterior of a Montesinos knot of length at least three, then the ratio \(-\chi(F)/| \partial F| \), where \(\chi(F)\) is the Euler characteristic of \(F\) and \(| \partial F| \) is the number of boundary components of \(F\), is bounded below by \(Q\), unless the knot is the \((-2,3,t)\)-pretzel knot for some odd \(t\geq 3\). For the \((-2,3,t)\)-pretzel knot with odd \(t\geq 3\), \(-\chi(F)/| \partial F| \) is bounded below by \(Q-1\). As an easy consequence, the cabling conjecture is reproved for Montesinos knots. Secondly, an upper bound for the difference between two non-meridional boundary slopes is given. Precisely, let \(R_i\) be a non-meridional slope for \(i=1,2\). Let \(F_i\) be an essential surface whose boundary slope is \(R_i\), and let \(s_i\) be the number of sheets of \(F_i\), that is, the number of points in the intersection between \(F_i\) and a small meridian of the knot. Then the difference \(| R_1-R_2| \) is less than or equal to \(-2(\chi(F_1)/s_1+\chi(F_2)/s_2)+4\). Most of the paper is devoted to the calculation using the edgepath system developed by Hatcher and Oertel. The last section contains a brief review of known results on boundary slopes and some problems.

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