Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements
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| author | Hass, Joel Thompson, Abigail Tsvietkova, Anastasiia |
| author_facet | Hass, Joel Thompson, Abigail Tsvietkova, Anastasiia |
| contents | Decomposing knots and links into tangles is a useful technique for understanding their properties. The notion of prime tangles was introduced by Kirby and Lickorish in [3]; Lickorish proved [5] that by summing prime tangles one obtains a prime link. In a similar spirit, summing two prime alternating tangles will produce a prime alternating link, if summed correctly with respect to the alternating property. Given a prime alternating link, we seek to understand whether it can be decomposed into two prime tangles each of which is alternating. We refine results of Menasco and Thistlethwaite to show that if such a decomposition exists either it is visible in an alternating link diagram or the link is of a particular form, which we call a pseudo-Montesinos link. |
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| spellingShingle | Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements Hass, Joel Thompson, Abigail Tsvietkova, Anastasiia Geometric Topology 57M25 Decomposing knots and links into tangles is a useful technique for understanding their properties. The notion of prime tangles was introduced by Kirby and Lickorish in [3]; Lickorish proved [5] that by summing prime tangles one obtains a prime link. In a similar spirit, summing two prime alternating tangles will produce a prime alternating link, if summed correctly with respect to the alternating property. Given a prime alternating link, we seek to understand whether it can be decomposed into two prime tangles each of which is alternating. We refine results of Menasco and Thistlethwaite to show that if such a decomposition exists either it is visible in an alternating link diagram or the link is of a particular form, which we call a pseudo-Montesinos link. |
| title | Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements |
| topic | Geometric Topology 57M25 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06571 |