Reduction of bridge positions along bridge disks

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.03.012zbMATH Open1365.57007arXiv1606.07224OpenAlexW2962780165MaRDI QIDQ526791FDOQ526791

Jung Hoon Lee

Publication date: 15 May 2017

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

Abstract: Suppose a knot in a $3$-manifold is in $n$-bridge position. We consider a reduction of the knot along a bridge disk $D$ and show that the result is an $(n-1)$-bridge position if and only if there is a bridge disk $E$ such that $(D,E)$ is a cancelling pair. We apply this to an unknot $K$, in $n$-bridge position with respect to a bridge sphere $S$ in the $3$-sphere, to consider the relationship between a bridge disk $D$ and a disk in the $3$-sphere that $K$ bounds. We show that if a reduction of $K$ along $D$ yields an $(n-1)$-bridge position, then $K$ bounds a disk that contains $D$ as a subdisk and intersects $S$ in $n$ arcs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07224

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zbMATH Keywords

bridge splittingbridge diskcancelling pair

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• Uniqueness of bridge surfaces for 2-bridge knots
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• Unperturbed weakly reducible non-minimal bridge positions
• Nonminimal bridge position of 2-cable links
• Bounding the Kirby-Thompson invariant of spun knots

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