English

Critical Bridge Spheres for Links with Arbitrarily Many Bridges

Geometric Topology 2019-06-11 v1

Abstract

We show that for every integer b3b\geq 3, there exists a link in a bb-bridge position with respect to a critical bridge sphere. In fact, for each bb, we construct an infinite family of links which we call square whose bridge spheres are critical.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.03483,
  title  = {Critical Bridge Spheres for Links with Arbitrarily Many Bridges},
  author = {Puttipong Pongtanapaisan and Daniel Rodman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03483},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

17 pages, 22 figures

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