Bridge number and Conway products

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.789MaRDI QIDQ969665zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryan Blair

Publication date 7 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1625

zbMATH Keywords

thin positionbridge positionc-incompressible surfaceConway sphere of a knotdistinguished factorgeneralized Conway product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Schubert proved that, given a composite link $K$ with summands $K_1$ and $K_2$, the bridge number of $K$ satisfies the following equation: ${\displaystyle }$�eta(K)=�eta(K_{1})+�eta(K_{2})-1.${\displaystyle }$ In ``Conway Produts and Links with Multiple Bridge Surfaces", Scharlemann and Tomova proved that, given links $K_1$ and $K_2$, there is a Conway product $K_{1}ime{s}_c{K}_2$ such that ${\displaystyle }$�eta(K_{1} imes_{c} K_{2}) leq �eta(K_{1}) + �eta(K_{2}) - 1${\displaystyle }$ In this paper, we define the generalized Conway product $K_{1}as{t}_c{K}_2$ and prove the lower bound $$ where $K_1$ is the distinguished factor of the generalized product. We go on to show this lower bound is tight for an infinite class of links with arbitrarily high bridge number.

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