Comparing 2-handle additions to a genus 2 boundary component

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06253-3zbMATH Open1297.57042arXiv0806.1572MaRDI QIDQ5420135FDOQ5420135

Authors: Scott A. Taylor 

Publication date: 11 June 2014

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that knots obtained by attaching a band to a split link satisfy the cabling conjecture. We also give new proofs that unknotting number one knots are prime and that genus is superadditive under band sum. Additionally, we prove a collection of results comparing two 2-handle additions to a genus two boundary component of a compact, orientable 3-manifold. These results give a near complete solution to a conjecture of Scharlemann and provide evidence for a conjecture of Scharlemann and Wu. The proofs make use of a new theorem concerning the effects of attaching a 2-handle to a suture in the boundary of a sutured manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1572

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zbMATH Keywords

2-handle additionCabling Conjectureboringrational tangle replacementband sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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