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Weak reducing disks and disk surgery

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Abstract

Let K be an unknot in 8-bridge position in the 3-sphere. We give an example of a pair of weak reducing disks D1 and D2 for K such that both disks obtained from Di (i = 1, 2) by a surgery along any outermost disk in D3-i, cut off by an outermost arc of Di D3-i in D3-i, are not weak reducing disks, i.e. the property of weak reducibility of compressing disks is not preserved by a disk surgery.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1850069
JournalJournal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
Volume27
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018.10.1

Keywords

  • Bridge position
  • disk surgery
  • weak reducing disk

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Mathematics

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