MORSE POSITION OF KNOTS AND CLOSED INCOMPRESSIBLE SURFACES

DOI10.1142/S021821650800618XMaRDI QIDQ3519634zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Makoto Ozawa

Publication date 19 August 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503375

zbMATH Keywords

incompressible surfacethin positionbridge positionKnotMorse position

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Isotopy in PL-topology (57Q37)

Abstract: In this paper, we study on knots and closed incompressible surfaces in the 3-sphere via Morse functions. We show that both of knots and closed incompressible surfaces can be isotoped into a "related Morse position" simultaneously. As an application, we have following results. *Smallness of Montesinos tangles with length two and Kinoshita's theta curve *Classification of closed incompressible and meridionally incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge theta-curve and handcuff graph complements and the complements of links which admit Hopf tangle decompositions.

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