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Incompressible surfaces in link complements

Ying-Qing Wu

Published 2000-11-01Version 1

We generalize a theorem of Finkelstein and Moriah and show that if a link $L$ has a $2n$-plat projection satisfying certain conditions, then its complement contains some closed essential surfaces. In most cases these surfaces remain essential after any totally nontrivial surgery on $L$.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Proc. AMS
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M25
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