On links minimizing the tunnel number

DOI10.1142/S0218216519400145zbMath1445.57002arXiv2006.01729MaRDI QIDQ5218910

João Miguel Nogueira, Darlan Girão, António M. Salgueiro

Publication date: 6 March 2020

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01729

zbMATH Keywords

graph; percolation; tunnel number; Heegaard surface; handlebody; hull number; Heegaard genus; Seifert manifold; hyperbolic link; augmented link; satellite link; unknotting tunnel system; link projection; chain link; \(n\)-band link; rank of \(3\)-manifold; Rank versus Genus Conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M15: Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

57K20: 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.)

57K10: Knot theory

57K31: Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties)