Rectangle condition for compression bodies and 2-fold branched coverings

DOI10.1142/S0218216512500782MaRDI QIDQ2885409zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jungsoo Kim, Jung Hoon Lee

Publication date 23 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2521

zbMATH Keywords

widththin positionstrong irreducibilityrectangle conditioncomposite knot(generalized) Heegaard splitting2-fold branched covering.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We give the rectangle condition for strong irreducibility of Heegaard splittings of $3$-manifolds with non-empty boundary. We apply this to a generalized Heegaard splitting of a $2$-fold covering of $S^3$ branched along a link. The condition implies that any thin meridional level surface in the link complement is incompressible. We also show that the additivity of knot width holds for a composite knot satisfying the condition.

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