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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

ISSN 1088-6826 (online) ISSN 0002-9939 (print)

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Adding a $2$-handle to a $3$-manifold: an application to property $R$
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by William Jaco
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 92 (1984), 288-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1984-0754723-6

Abstract:

A sufficient condition is given for adding a $2$-handle to a $3$-manifold and obtaining a $3$-manifold with incompressible boundary. The main result is then used to show that a knot in the $3$-sphere admitting a partially unknotted spanning surface has Property $R$.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1984 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 92 (1984), 288-292
  • MSC: Primary 57N10; Secondary 57M25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1984-0754723-6
  • MathSciNet review: 754723