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The JSJ system detects a companion torus when it is not amalgamated

Statement

Assume full AC. Let K⊂S3 be a nontrivial smooth oriented knot with a specified orientation-preserving companion embedding e:V=S1×D2→S3 that sends the oriented core to K and identifies the product meridian and longitude with the positive meridian and preferred longitude of K. Let P⊂int⁡V be a smooth oriented pattern with a chosen closed tubular neighbourhood N(P)⊂int⁡V. Put XP=V∖int⁡N(P) and assume that no properly embedded disk in XP has essential boundary on ∂V, and that XP is not a product T2×[0,1] with ends ∂V and ∂N(P). Put P(K)=e(P), M=EP(K)=S3∖int⁡e(N(P)), and Tc=e(∂V). Suppose both components of M cut along Tc are atoroidal or Seifert-fibered, and M itself is neither atoroidal nor Seifert-fibered. Then every inclusion-minimal JSJ system of M consists of one torus ambient isotopic to Tc. Cutting along Tc has the companion exterior EK as its outside component. No conclusion is made for an essential companion torus that is absorbed into a Seifert-fibered union.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Full AC, a satellite knot exterior M, its companion torus Tc, the stated pattern hypotheses, and the two pieces obtained by cutting along Tc.

[A1]

Full AC is the assertion that every set-indexed family of nonempty sets has a choice function (The Axiom of Choice, Definition).

[F1]

The pattern and companion torus are defined in Satellite pattern, companion, and winding number.

[F2]

Under the nontrivial companion and nonproduct pattern hypotheses, Tc is essential (Essential companion tori for nontrivial companions and incompressible nonproduct patterns, Statement).

[F3]

A finite family of incompressible tori is a JSJ system when cutting along it gives only atoroidal or Seifert-fibered pieces; inclusion-minimality excludes every proper subfamily (Incompressibility, Seifert fibrations, and JSJ systems, Definition).

[F4]

For a compact knot exterior, an inclusion-minimal JSJ system is unique up to ambient isotopy (JSJ decomposition of compact knot exteriors, Statement).

Proof

1.1A1F1F2F3givenconstruct

By [F2], Tc is incompressible. The hypothesis on the two cut components and [F3] show that the singleton family {Tc} is a JSJ system. The empty family is not a JSJ system because its sole cut component is M, which by hypothesis is neither atoroidal nor Seifert-fibered. Thus {Tc} is inclusion-minimal.

2.1F1F4step 1.1construct∎

Apply [F4] to the minimal system {Tc}. It follows that the unique minimal system consists of one torus ambient isotopic to Tc. The decomposition of the satellite exterior in [F1] shows that the side inside the companion solid torus is the pattern exterior and the outside side is exactly EK. The ambient isotopy supplied by [F4] is jointly smooth and starts at the identity. Apply its final diffeomorphism to the cut decomposition: it carries the original outside component EK to the corresponding outside component for the isotopic torus. The boundary of M remains on the pattern side, so the component labels are unambiguous.

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