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Essential meridional surfaces for tunnel number one knots

Geometric Topology 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We show that for each pair of positive integers g and n, there are infinitely many tunnel number one knots, whose exteriors contain an essential meridional surface of genus g, and with 2n boundary components. We also show that for each positive integer n, there are tunnel number one knots whose exteriors contain n disjoint, non-parallel, closed incompressible surfaces, each of genus n.

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@article{arxiv.math/9908053,
  title  = {Essential meridional surfaces for tunnel number one knots},
  author = {Mario Eudave-Munoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9908053},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures. Revised version

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