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Knots with compressible thin levels

Geometric Topology 2016-01-20 v1

Abstract

We produce embeddings of knots in thin position that admit compressible thin levels. We also find the bridge number of tangle sums where each tangle is high distance.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6211,
  title  = {Knots with compressible thin levels},
  author = {Ryan Blair and Alexander Zupan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6211},
  year   = {2016}
}

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24 pages, 6 figures

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