Essential twisted surfaces in alternating link complements

DOI10.2140/AGT.2016.16.3209zbMATH Open1355.57005arXiv1410.6318OpenAlexW3101380057MaRDI QIDQ728313FDOQ728313

Authors: Marc Lackenby, Jessica S. Purcell 

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Checkerboard surfaces in alternating link complements are used frequently to determine information about the link. However, when many crossings are added to a single twist region of a link diagram, the geometry of the link complement stabilizes (approaches a geometric limit), but a corresponding checkerboard surface increases in complexity with crossing number. In this paper, we generalize checkerboard surfaces to certain immersed surfaces, called twisted checkerboard surfaces, whose geometry better reflects that of the alternating link in many cases. We describe the surfaces, show that they are essential in the complement of an alternating link, and discuss their properties, including an analysis of homotopy classes of arcs on the surfaces in the link complement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6318

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zbMATH Keywords

essential surfacesalternating knots and linkscheckerboard surfaces

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