On Krebes's tangle

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2013.05.009zbMATH Open1283.57008arXiv1208.3913OpenAlexW2470871909MaRDI QIDQ390403FDOQ390403

Authors: Susan M. Abernathy 

Publication date: 8 January 2014

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A genus-1 tangle G is an arc properly embedded in a standardly embedded solid torus S in the 3-sphere. We say that a genus-1 tangle embeds in a knot K in S^3 if the tangle can be completed by adding an arc exterior to the solid torus to form the knot K. We call K a closure of G. An obstruction to embedding a genus-1 tangle G in a knot is given by torsion in the homology of branched covers of S branched over G. We examine a particular example A of a genus-1 tangle, given by Krebes, and consider its two double-branched covers. Using this homological obstruction, we show that any closure of A obtained via an arc which passes through the hole of S an odd number of times must have determinant divisible by three. A resulting corollary is that if A embeds in the unknot, then the arc which completes A to the unknot must pass through the hole of S an even number of times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3913

Recommendations

• The Kauffman bracket ideal for genus-1 tangles
• Even and odd Kauffman bracket ideals for genus-1 tangles
• On embeddings of 2-string tangles into the unknot, the unlink and split links
• The untangling theorem
• AN OBSTRUCTION TO EMBEDDING 4-TANGLES IN LINKS

zbMATH Keywords

determinanttangleknotbranched cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• AN OBSTRUCTION TO EMBEDDING 4-TANGLES IN LINKS
• EMBEDDING TANGLES IN LINKS
• 3-manifolds, tangles and persistent invariants

Cited In (5)

• The Kauffman bracket ideal for genus-1 tangles
• A remarkable 20-crossing tangle
• Even and odd Kauffman bracket ideals for genus-1 tangles
• The prevalence of persistent tangles
• VIRTUAL TANGLES AND A THEOREM OF KREBES

This page was built for publication: On Krebes's tangle

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q390403)