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Note on the canonical genus of a knot

Geometric Topology 2015-01-08 v2

Abstract

We show that every canonical Seifert surface is (up to isotopy) given by a knot diagram in which the (open) Seifert disks are pairwise disjoint.

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@article{arxiv.1411.1536,
  title  = {Note on the canonical genus of a knot},
  author = {Martina Aaltonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.1536},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

The second version acknowledges the fact that the result of the paper is known and established by Mikami Hirasawa