Knot adjacency, genus and essential tori

DOI10.2140/PJM.2006.228.251zbMATH Open1123.57007arXivmath/0403024OpenAlexW2055974433MaRDI QIDQ996161FDOQ996161

Authors: Efstratia Kalfagianni, Xiao-Song Lin 

Publication date: 12 September 2007

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A knot K is called n-adjacent to another knot K', if K admits a projection containing n generalized crossings such that changing any 0 < m leq n of them yields a projection of K'. We apply techniques from the theory of sutured 3-manifolds, Dehn surgery and the theory of geometric structures of 3-manifolds to answer the question of the extent to which non-isotopic knots can be adjacent to each other. A consequence of our main result is that if K is n-adjacent to K' for all n, then K and K' are isotopic. This provides a partial verification of the conjecture of V. Vassiliev that the finite type knot invariants distinguish all knots. We also show that if no twist about a crossing circle L of a knot K changes the isotopy class of K, then L bounds a disc in the complement of K. This gives a characterization of the nugatory crossings of a knot.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403024

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zbMATH Keywords

Dehn surgeryThurston normfinite type invariantessential torigeneralized crossingknot adjacencyVassiliev conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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