Free Seifert surfaces and disk decompositions

DOI10.1007/S002090100368zbMATH Open1002.57011arXivmath/9910066OpenAlexW2039391546MaRDI QIDQ697363FDOQ697363

Authors: Mark Brittenham 

Publication date: 17 September 2002

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Seifert surface F for a knot K is disk decomposable if there is a taut sutured manifold heirarchy for the complement of F, whose decomposing surfaces are all disks. It follows that F has minimal genus for the knot K, and has handlebody complement, i.e., F is free. We show that these necessary conditions for disk decomposability are not sufficient, by constructing a family of knots with genus one free Seifert surfaces, which are not disk decomposable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910066

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• Free degrees of homeomorphisms on compact surfaces
• Decompositions of fundamental groups of closed surfaces into free constructions
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