On keen weakly reducible bridge spheres

arXiv2009.11984MaRDI QIDQ6349840FDOQ6349840

Authors: Puttipong Pongtanapaisan, Daniel Rodman 

Publication date: 24 September 2020

Abstract: A bridge sphere is said to be keen weakly reducible if it admits a unique pair of disjoint compressing disks on opposite sides. In particular, such a bridge sphere is weakly reducible, not perturbed, and not topologically minimal in the sense of David Bachman. In terms of Jennifer Schultens' width complex, a link in bridge position with respect to a keen weakly reducible bridge sphere is distance one away from a local minimum. In this paper, we give infinitely many examples of keen weakly reducible bridge spheres for links in $b$ bridge position for $bgeq4.$

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