Thin position and planar surfaces for graphs in the 3-sphere

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09878-5MaRDI QIDQ3402187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tao Li

Publication date 2 February 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2865

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We show that given a trivalent graph in $S^3$, either the graph complement contains an essential almost meridional planar surface or thin position for the graph is also bridge position. This can be viewed as an extension of a theorem of Thompson to graphs. It follows that any graph complement always contains a useful planar surface.

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