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Bridge Number and the Curve Complex

2006/03/03 by Johnson, Jesse
#57M #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0603102

Abstract

We show that there are hyperbolic tunnel-number one knots with arbitrarily high bridge number and that "most" tunnel-number one knots are not one-bridge with respect to an unknotted torus. The proof relies on a connection between bridge number and a certain distance in the curve complex of a genus-two surface.

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