Comparing 2-handle additions to a genus 2 boundary component

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06253-3MaRDI QIDQ5420135zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Scott A. Taylor

Publication date 11 June 2014

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

2-handle additionCabling Conjectureboringrational tangle replacementband sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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