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The Kakimizu complex of a connected sum of links

Geometric Topology 2018-07-17 v1

Abstract

We show that |MS(L_1 # L_2)|=|MS(L_1)|\times|MS(L_2)|\times\mathbb{R} when L1L_1 and L2L_2 are any non-split and non-fibred links. Here MS(L)MS(L) denotes the Kakimizu complex of a link LL, which records the taut Seifert surfaces for LL. We also show that the analogous result holds if we study incompressible Seifert surfaces instead of taut ones.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0965,
  title  = {The Kakimizu complex of a connected sum of links},
  author = {Jessica E. Banks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0965},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures. This result has been proved independently by Bassem Saad