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Surface-link families with arbitrarily large triple point number

Geometric Topology 2022-12-21 v3

Abstract

Analogous to a classical knot diagram, a surface-link can be generically projected to 3-space and given crossing information to create a broken sheet diagram. The triple point number of a surface-link is the minimal number of triple points among all broken sheet diagrams that lift to that surface-link. This paper generalizes a family of Oshiro to show that there are non-split surface-links of arbitrarily many trivial components whose triple point number can be made arbitrarily large.

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@article{arxiv.2204.13860,
  title  = {Surface-link families with arbitrarily large triple point number},
  author = {Nicholas Cazet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13860},
  year   = {2022}
}
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