English

Knots with distinct primitive/primitive and primitive/Seifert representatives

Geometric Topology 2015-05-21 v5

Abstract

Berge introduced knots that are primitive/primitive with respect to the genus 2 Heegaard surface, FF, in S3S^3; surgery on such knots at the surface slope yields a lens space. Later Dean described a similar class of knots that are primitive/Seifert with respect to FF; surgery on these knots at the surface slope yields a Seifert fibered space. Here we construct a two-parameter family of knots that have distinct primitive/Seifert embeddings in FF with the same surface slope, as well as a family of torus knots that have a primitive/primitive representative and a primitive/Seifert representative with the same surface slope.

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@article{arxiv.0909.0476,
  title  = {Knots with distinct primitive/primitive and primitive/Seifert representatives},
  author = {Brandy Guntel Doleshal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0476},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures; 2 figures updated

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