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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(s):
Makoto
Ozawa
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
128
(2000),
919-922.
MSC (1991):
Primary 57M25
Posted:
May 6, 1999
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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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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
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05068-6
PII:
S 0002-9939(99)05068-6
Keywords:
Seifert surface,
closed incompressible surface
Received by editor(s):
June 18, 1997
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
May 4, 1998
Posted:
May 6, 1999
Communicated by:
Ronald A. Fintushel
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