Prime knot complements with meridional essential surfaces of arbitrarily high genus

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2015.05.088zbMATH Open1328.57011arXiv1706.03719OpenAlexW2102094861MaRDI QIDQ500952FDOQ500952

Authors: João Miguel Nogueira 

Publication date: 8 October 2015

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

Abstract: We show the existence of infinitely many prime knots each of which having in their complements meridional essential surfaces with two boundary components and arbitrarily high genus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03719

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zbMATH Keywords

essential surfacesknot complementmeridional surfaceunbounded genus

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