Free Seifert surfaces and disk decompositions
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
A Seifert surface F for a knot K is disk decomposable if there is a taut sutured manifold heirarchy for the complement of F, whose decomposing surfaces are all disks. It follows that F has minimal genus for the knot K, and has handlebody complement, i.e., F is free. We show that these necessary conditions for disk decomposability are not sufficient, by constructing a family of knots with genus one free Seifert surfaces, which are not disk decomposable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/9910066,
title = {Free Seifert surfaces and disk decompositions},
author = {Mark Brittenham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9910066},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, with 18 figures (in color). For a version with figures in black and white (which prints better), visit http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbritten/personal/pprdescr.html