Band-taut sutured manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.157zbMATH Open1297.57041arXiv1109.5220OpenAlexW1995714660MaRDI QIDQ384649FDOQ384649

Authors: Scott A. Taylor 

Publication date: 28 November 2013

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Attaching a 2-handle to a genus two or greater boundary component of a 3-manifold is a natural generalization of Dehn filling a torus boundary component. We prove that there is an interesting relationship between an essential surface in a sutured 3-manifold, the number of intersections between the boundary of the surface and one of the sutures, and the cocore of the 2-handle in the manifold after attaching a 2-handle along the suture. We use this result to show that tunnels for tunnel number one knots or links in any 3-manifold can be isotoped to lie on a branched surface corresponding to a certain taut sutured manifold hierarchy of the knot or link exterior. In a subsequent paper, we use the theorem to prove that band sums satisfy the cabling conjecture, and to give new proofs that unknotting number one knots are prime and that genus is superadditive under band sum. To prove the theorem, we introduce band taut sutured manifolds and prove the existence of band taut sutured manifold hierarchies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5220

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zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldtunnelsutured manifold2-handle additionknot and link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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