Abstract
In this paper we use Heegaard Floer link homology to determine the dual Thurston polytope for pretzel links of the form . We apply this result to determine the Thurston norms of spanning surfaces for the individual link components, and we explicitly construct norm-realizing surfaces for the homology classes which are vertices of the Thurston polytope.
Citation
Joan Licata. "The Thurston polytope for four-stranded pretzel links." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 8 (1) 211 - 243, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2008.8.211
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