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Homotopically equivalent simple loops on 2-bridge spheres in 2-bridge link complements (II)

Group Theory 2013-10-01 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

This is the second of a series of papers which give a necessary and sufficient condition for two essential simple loops on a 2-bridge sphere in a 2-bridge link complement to be homotopic in the link complement. The first paper of the series treated the case of the 2-bridge torus links. In this paper, we treat the case of 2-bridge links of slope n/(2n+1)n/(2n+1) and (n+1)/(3n+2)(n+1)/(3n+2), where n2n \ge 2 is an arbitrary integer.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0856,
  title  = {Homotopically equivalent simple loops on 2-bridge spheres in 2-bridge link complements (II)},
  author = {Donghi Lee and Makoto Sakuma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0856},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

37 pages, 23 figures; updated version, incorporating the referee's comments; to appear in Geom. Dedicata