Representing knots by filling Dehn spheres

DOI10.1142/S0218216516500188zbMATH Open1337.57055arXiv1508.06295MaRDI QIDQ2802903FDOQ2802903

Ruben Vigara, Álvaro Lozano-Rojo

Publication date: 27 April 2016

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that any knot or link in any 3-manifold can be nicely decomposed (splitted) by a filling Dehn sphere. This has interesting consequences in the study of branched coverings over knots and links. We give an algorithm for computing Johansson diagrams of filling Dehn surfaces out from coverings of 3-manifolds branched over knots or links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06295

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldknotsbranched coveringslinksimmersed surfacefilling Dehn surfaceJohansson diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

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• Embedding spheres in knot traces
• Lifting filling Dehn spheres
• Banchoff's sphere and branched covers over the trefoil
• Roots and decompositions of three-dimensional topological objects
• Knot diagrams on a punctured sphere as a model of string figures
• A complexity of compact \(3\)-manifolds via immersed surfaces
• Representing 3-manifolds by filling Dehn surfaces

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