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Alteration of Seifert surfaces

Geometric Topology 2023-08-03 v1

Abstract

We introduce the notion of alteration of a surface embedded in a 3-manifold extending that of compression. We see that given two Seifert surfaces of the same link are related to each other by ``single'' alteration, even if they are not by compression.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00974,
  title  = {Alteration of Seifert surfaces},
  author = {Ayumu Inoue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00974},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, 9 figures

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