A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links
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Publication:357722
DOI10.2140/AGT.2013.13.2967zbMATH Open1420.57012arXiv1205.5520OpenAlexW2015500305MaRDI QIDQ357722FDOQ357722
Authors: Thomas Kindred, Colin Adams 
Publication date: 13 August 2013
Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links is provided up to genus, orientability, and a new invariant that we call aggregate slope. That is, given an alternating link, we determine all possible combinations of genus, orientability, and aggregate slope that a surface spanning that link can have. To this end, we describe a straightforward algorithm, much like Seifert's Algorithm, through which to construct certain spanning surfaces called layered surfaces. A particularly important subset of these will be what we call basic layered surfaces. We can alter these surface by performing the entirely local operations of adding handles and/or crosscaps, each of which increases genus. The main result then shows that if we are given an alternating projection P(L) and a surface S spanning L, we can construct a surface T spanning L with the same genus, orientability, and aggregate slope as S that is a basic layered surface with respect to P, except perhaps at a collection of added crosscaps and/or handles. Furthermore, S must be connected if L is non-splittable. This result has several useful corollaries. In particular, it allows for the determination of nonorientable genus for alternating links. It also can be used to show that mutancy of alternating links preserves nonorientable genus. And it allows one to prove that there are knots that have a pair of minimal nonorientable genus spanning surfaces, one boundary-incompressible and one boundary-compressible.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5520
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