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Boundary slopes of some non-Montesinos knots

Geometric Topology 2014-01-14 v1

Abstract

It is shown that there exist alternating non-Montesinos knots whose essential spanning surfaces with maximal and minimal boundary slopes are not realised by the checkerboard surfaces coming from a reduced alternating planar diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1401.2726,
  title  = {Boundary slopes of some non-Montesinos knots},
  author = {Joshua Howie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2726},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures