Synchronism of an incompressible non-free Seifert surface for a knot and an algebraically split closed incompressible surface in the knot complement

Ozawa, Makoto

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05068-6

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Synchronism of an incompressible non-free Seifert surface for a knot and
an algebraically split closed incompressible surface in the knot complement

Author: Makoto Ozawa
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 919-922
MSC (1991): Primary 57M25
Posted: May 6, 1999
MathSciNet review: 1626470
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Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for knots to bound incompressible non-free Seifert surfaces.

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