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We give an upper bound on the distance between a degeneracy slope for a very full essential lamination and a boundary slope of an essential surface embedded in a compact, orientable, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with incompressible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Kazuhiro Ichihara

We prove that there are exactly $6$ Nil Seifert fibred spaces which can be obtained by Dehn surgeries on non-trefoil knots in $S^3$, with $\{60, 144, 156, 288, 300\}$ as the exact set of all such surgery slopes up to taking the mirror…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Yi Ni , Xingru Zhang

For a compact connected 3-submanifold with connected boundary in the 3-sphere, we relate the existence of a Seifert surface system for a surface with a Dehn surgery along a null-homologous link. As its corollary, we obtain a refinement of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Makoto Ozawa , Koya Shimokawa

We use sutured manifold theory, essential laminations and essential branched surfaces to establish the upper bounds of distances between certain types of nonsimple Dehn surgery slopes. This is the revised version of an earlier preprint {\it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Ying-Qing Wu

We introduce and define "oriented framed measured lamination links" in a 3-manifold $M$. These generalize oriented framed links in 3-manifolds, and are confined to 2-dimensional improperly embedded subsurfaces of the 3-manifold. Just as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Ulrich Oertel

We generalize the results of [AS], finding large classes of totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements, each the lift of a rigid 2-orbifold embedded in some hyperbolic 3-orbifold. In addition, we provide a…

We show that the distance of a link $K$ with respect to a bridge surface of any genus determines a lower bound on the genus of essential surfaces and Heegaard surfaces in the manifolds that result from non-trivial Dehn surgeries on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ryan Blair , Marion Campisi , Jesse Johnson , Scott A. Taylor , Maggy Tomova

We show that any closed incompressible surface in the complement of a positive knot is algebraically non-split from the knot, positive knots cannot bound non-free incompressible Seifert surfaces and that the splitability and the primeness…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Makoto Ozawa

We generalize the idea of unknotting knots to Seifert surfaces. We define an operation called ribbon twist which serves as the equivalent of a crossing change for knots. A Seifert surface is considered untwisted, the equivalent to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Michael Pfeuti

We show that Haefliger's differentiable (6,3)-knot bounds, in 6-space, a 4-manifold (a Seifert surface) of arbitrarily prescribed signature. This implies, according to our previous paper, that the Seifert surface has been prolonged in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masamichi Takase

We study the sutured Floer homology invariants of the sutured manifold obtained by cutting a knot complement along a Seifert surface, R. We show that these invariants are finer than the "top term" of the knot Floer homology, which they…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Matthew Hedden , Andras Juhasz , Sucharit Sarkar

We study pseudo-classical knots in the non-orientable thickening of a non-orientable surface, specifically knots that are orientation-preserving paths in a non-orientable $3$-manifold of the form (non-orientable surface) $\times$ $[0, 1]$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Vladimir Tarkaev

We define three different types of spanning surfaces for knots in thickened surfaces. We use these to introduce new Seifert matrices, Alexander-type polynomials, genera, and a signature invariant. One of these Alexander polynomials extends…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-18 András Juhász , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

Let $K$ be a knot in an L-space $Y$ with a Dehn surgery to a surface bundle over $S^1$. We prove that $K$ is rationally fibered, that is, the knot complement admits a fibration over $S^1$. As part of the proof, we show that if $K\subset Y$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yi Ni , Faramarz Vafaee

Suppose $K$ is a hyperbolic knot in a solid torus $V$ intersecting a meridian disk $D$ twice. We will show that if $K$ is not the Whitehead knot and the frontier of a regular neighborhood of $K \cup D$ is incompressible in the knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Ying-Qing Wu

Given a simply-connected closed 4-manifold $X$ and a smoothly embedded oriented surface $\Sigma$, various constructions based on Fintushel-Stern knot surgery have produced new surfaces in $X$ that are pairwise homeomorphic to $\Sigma$, but…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Hee Jung Kim

A virtual knot that has a homologically trivial representative $\mathscr{K}$ in a thickened surface $\Sigma \times [0,1]$ is said to be an almost classical (AC) knot. $\mathscr{K}$ then bounds a Seifert surface $F\subset \Sigma \times…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Micah Chrisman

Suppose F is a compact orientable surface, K is a knot in F x I, and N is the 3-manifold obtained by some non-trivial surgery on K. If F x {0} compresses in N, then there is an annulus in F x I with one end K and the other end an essential…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Martin Scharlemann , Abigail Thompson

A knot $K$ is definite if $|\sigma(K)| = 2g(K)$. We prove that the quotient of a definite periodic knot is definite by considering equivariant minimal genus Seifert surfaces.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Keegan Boyle

We show that every canonical Seifert surface is (up to isotopy) given by a knot diagram in which the (open) Seifert disks are pairwise disjoint.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Martina Aaltonen