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Seifert Klein bottles for knots with common boundary slopes

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We consider the question of how many essential Seifert Klein bottles with common boundary slope a knot in S^3 can bound, up to ambient isotopy. We prove that any hyperbolic knot in S^3 bounds at most six Seifert Klein bottles with a given boundary slope. The Seifert Klein bottles in a minimal projection of hyperbolic pretzel knots of length 3 are shown to be unique and pi_1-injective, with surgery along their boundary slope producing irreducible toroidal manifolds. The cable knots which bound essential Seifert Klein bottles are classified; their Seifert Klein bottles are shown to be non-pi_1-injective, and unique in the case of torus knots. For satellite knots we show that, in general, there is no upper bound for the number of distinct Seifert Klein bottles a knot can bound.

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@article{arxiv.math/0409459,
  title  = {Seifert Klein bottles for knots with common boundary slopes},
  author = {Luis G. Valdez-Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0409459},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon7/paper2.abs.html

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