Synchronism of an incompressible non-free Seifert surface for a knot and an algebraically split closed incompressible surface in the knot complement
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Abstract:
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for knots to bound incompressible non-free Seifert surfaces.References
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Additional Information
- Makoto Ozawa
- Affiliation: Department of Science, School of Education, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan
- Email: ozawa@mn.waseda.ac.jp
- Received by editor(s): June 18, 1997
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 4, 1998
- Published electronically: May 6, 1999
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 919-922
- MSC (1991): Primary 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05068-6
- MathSciNet review: 1626470