Rectangle condition for compression bodies and 2-fold branched coverings

DOI10.1142/S0218216512500782zbMATH Open1247.57018arXiv1007.2521MaRDI QIDQ2885409FDOQ2885409

Jungsoo Kim, Jung Hoon Lee

Publication date: 23 May 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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• Casson-Gordon's rectangle condition of Heegaard diagrams and incompressible tori in 3-manifolds

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