Property P for Knots admitting Certain Gabai Disks
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We show that if a knot has a minimal spanning surface that admits certain Gabai disks, then this knot has Property P. As one of the applications we extend and simplify a recent result of Menasco and Zhang that closed 3-braid knots have Property P. Other applications are given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0305426,
title = {Property P for Knots admitting Certain Gabai Disks},
author = {Oliver T. Dasbach and Tao Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0305426},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, 12 figures