Non-parallel essential surfaces in knot complements
Non-parallel essential surfaces in knot complements
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结补中的非平行基本表面
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2003
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D. Bachman
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D. Bachman
We show that if a knot or link has n thin levels when put in thin position then its exterior contains a collection of n disjoint, non-parallel, planar, meridional, essential surfaces. A corollary is that there are at least n/3 tetrahedra in any triangulation of the complement of such a knot.