Handle numbers of guts of sutured manifolds and nearly fibered knots

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Autores principales: Baker, Kenneth L., Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Fabiola
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author Baker, Kenneth L.
Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Fabiola
author_facet Baker, Kenneth L.
Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Fabiola
contents Extending Haken's Theorem to product annuli and disks for Heegaard splittings of sutured manifolds, we show that the handle number of an irreducible sutured manifold equals the handle number of its guts. We further show that reduced sutured manifolds with torus boundary contained in $S^3$ fall in to three types that generalize the three models of guts of knots that are nearly fibered in the instanton or Heegaard Floer sense. In conjunction with these results and another concerning uniqueness of incompressible Seifert surfaces, we show that while many nearly fibered knots have handle number $2$ and a unique incompressible Seifert surface, some have handle number $4$ and others have extra incompressible Seifert surfaces. Examples of nearly fibered knots with non-isotopic incompressible Seifert surfaces are exhibited.
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spellingShingle Handle numbers of guts of sutured manifolds and nearly fibered knots
Baker, Kenneth L.
Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Fabiola
Geometric Topology
57K10, 57K35, 57K99
Extending Haken's Theorem to product annuli and disks for Heegaard splittings of sutured manifolds, we show that the handle number of an irreducible sutured manifold equals the handle number of its guts. We further show that reduced sutured manifolds with torus boundary contained in $S^3$ fall in to three types that generalize the three models of guts of knots that are nearly fibered in the instanton or Heegaard Floer sense. In conjunction with these results and another concerning uniqueness of incompressible Seifert surfaces, we show that while many nearly fibered knots have handle number $2$ and a unique incompressible Seifert surface, some have handle number $4$ and others have extra incompressible Seifert surfaces. Examples of nearly fibered knots with non-isotopic incompressible Seifert surfaces are exhibited.
title Handle numbers of guts of sutured manifolds and nearly fibered knots
topic Geometric Topology
57K10, 57K35, 57K99
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08928