Stably irreducible non-orientable knotted surfaces
Geometric Topology
2025-04-07 v1
Abstract
We give an elementary obstruction to reducibility for knotted surfaces in the four-sphere. As a new application, we construct stably irreducible non-orientable surfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.03086,
title = {Stably irreducible non-orientable knotted surfaces},
author = {Tye Lidman and Lisa Piccirillo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.03086},
year = {2025}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures