STUDYING SURFACES VIA CLOSED BRAIDS
STUDYING SURFACES VIA CLOSED BRAIDS
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通过闭合辫子研究表面
DOI：
10.1142/s0218216598000176
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
0.5
通讯作者：
Elizabeth Finkelstein
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作者：
J. Birman;Elizabeth Finkelstein
This is a review article on the Bennequin-Birman-Menasco machinery for studying embedded incompressible surfaces in 3-space via their `braid foliations'. Two cases are investigated: case (1) The surface has non-empty boundary; the boundary is a knot or link which is represented as a closed braid, Case (2) The surface is closed, but it lies in the complement of a knot or link which is represented as a closed braid. The main results in the area are established with full proofs, in a systematic fashion, with an eye toward making them accessible to the beginning reader. There are some new contributions, described in detail in the introduction.
