English

On weak reducing disks and disk surgery

Geometric Topology 2018-04-20 v1

Abstract

Let KK be an unknot in 88-bridge position in the 33-sphere. We give an example of a pair of weak reducing disks D1D_1 and D2D_2 for KK such that both disks obtained from DiD_i (i=1,2i = 1, 2) by a surgery along any outermost disk in D3iD_{3-i}, cut off by an outermost arc of DiD3iD_i \cap D_{3-i} in D3iD_{3-i}, are not weak reducing disks, i.e. the property of weak reducibility of compressing disks is not preserved by a disk surgery.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1804.06991,
  title  = {On weak reducing disks and disk surgery},
  author = {Jung Hoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06991},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures

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