Minimal genus Seifert surfaces for alternating links
Geometric Topology
2026-01-09 v2
Abstract
We give a complete proof of results announced by Hirasawa and Sakuma describing explicitly the Kakimizu complex of a non-split, prime, special, alternating link.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.3180,
title = {Minimal genus Seifert surfaces for alternating links},
author = {Jessica E. Banks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3180},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
49 pages, 56 figures; v2 has several improvements and corrections, particularly to the proof of Proposition 5.23