On multiply twisted knots that are Seifert fibered or toroidal
Abstract
We consider knots whose diagrams have a high amount of twisting of multiple strands. By encircling twists on multiple strands with unknotted curves, we obtain a link called a generalized augmented link. Dehn filling this link gives the original knot. We classify those generalized augmented links that are Seifert fibered, and give a torus decomposition for those that are toroidal. In particular, we find that each component of the torus decomposition is either "trivial", in some sense, or homeomorphic to the complement of a generalized augmented link. We show this structure persists under high Dehn filling, giving results on the torus decomposition of knots with generalized twist regions and a high amount of twisting. As an application, we give lower bounds on the Gromov norms of these knot complements and of generalized augmented links.
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@article{arxiv.0906.4575,
title = {On multiply twisted knots that are Seifert fibered or toroidal},
author = {Jessica S. Purcell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4575},
year = {2009}
}
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33 pages, 12 figures