{
  "id": "math/0203149",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-03-15T07:24:54.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-03-15T07:24:54.000Z",
  "title": "Thin Position for Tangles",
  "authors": [
    "David Bachman",
    "Saul Schleimer"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications",
  "journal": "Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol.12, No.1 (2003) 117-122.",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "If a tangle, K, in the 3-ball has no planar, meridional, essential surfaces in its exterior then thin position for K has no thin levels.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-03-15T07:24:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M25"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "thin position",
      "essential surfaces",
      "thin levels"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2002math......3149B"
    }
  }
}