Bridge spheres for the unknot are topologically minimal

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.282.437zbMATH Open1337.57027arXiv1412.4477OpenAlexW5921048MaRDI QIDQ265535FDOQ265535

Authors: Jung Hoon Lee 

Publication date: 4 April 2016

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that an $(n+1)$-bridge sphere for the unknot is a topologically minimal surface of index at most $n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4477

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zbMATH Keywords

bridge splittingdisk complextopologically minimal surfaceunknot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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