Constructing knot tunnels using giant steps

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10069-2zbMATH Open1192.57004MaRDI QIDQ3402191FDOQ3402191

Authors: Sangbum Cho, Darryl McCullough 

Publication date: 2 February 2010

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

Abstract: This is the first of three papers that refine and extend portions of our earlier preprint, "Depth of a knot tunnel." Together, they rework the entire preprint. H. Goda, M. Scharlemann, and A. Thompson described a general construction of all tunnels of all tunnel number 1 knots using "tunnel moves". We apply the theory that we introduced in "The tree of knot tunnels" to study this construction. In particular, we use it to calculate the number of distinct minimal sequences of tunnel moves that can produce a given tunnel. As a consequence, we see that for a sparse infinite set of tunnels, the minimal sequence is unique, but generically a tunnel will have many such constructions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1382

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal sequencesminimal length sequencestunnel moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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• Tunnel leveling, depth, and bridge numbers
• Tunnel complexes of 3-manifolds
• Cabling sequences of tunnels of torus knots
• The tree of knot tunnels
• Middle tunnels by splitting
• Iterated splitting and the classification of knot tunnels
• The tunnel number and the cutting number with constituent handlebody-knots

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