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2013 Bridge number and tangle products
Ryan Blair
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 13(2): 1125-1141 (2013). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2013.13.1125

Abstract

We show that essential punctured spheres in the complement of links with distance three or greater bridge spheres have bounded complexity. We define the operation of tangle product, a generalization of both connected sum and Conway product. Finally, we use the bounded complexity of essential punctured spheres to show that the bridge number of a tangle product is at least the sum of the bridge numbers of the two factor links up to a constant error.

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Ryan Blair. "Bridge number and tangle products." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 13 (2) 1125 - 1141, 2013. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2013.13.1125

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Received: 21 January 2012; Revised: 6 June 2012; Accepted: 26 October 2012; Published: 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 19 December 2017

zbMATH: 1277.57008
MathSciNet: MR3044605
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2013.13.1125

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25 , 57M27 , 57M50

Keywords: bridge number , knot , product , surface

Rights: Copyright © 2013 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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