Weak reducing disks and disk surgery

Abstract: Let

K

be an unknot in

8

-bridge position in the

3

-sphere. We give an example of a pair of weak reducing disks

D_{1}

and

D_{2}

for

K

such that both disks obtained from

D_{i}

(

i = 1, 2

) by a surgery along any outermost disk in

D_{3 - i}

, cut off by an outermost arc of

D_{i} c a p D_{3 - i}

in

D_{3 - i}

, are not weak reducing disks, i.e. the property of weak reducibility of compressing disks is not preserved by a disk surgery.

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