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arxiv: 1509.06653 · v2 · pith:AGLSOBRBnew · submitted 2015-09-22 · 🧮 math.GT

A knot without a nonorientable essential spanning surface

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keywords knotsurfaceboundaryconjectureessentialevennonorientablespanning
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This note gives the first example of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere that lacks a nonorientable essential spanning surface; this disproves the Strong Neuwirth Conjecture formulated by Ozawa and Rubinstein. Moreover, this knot has no even strict boundary slopes, disproving the Even Boundary Slope Conjecture of the same authors. The proof is a rigorous calculation using Thurston's spun-normal surfaces in the spirit of Haken's original normal surface algorithms.

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