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Incompressibility, Seifert fibrations, and JSJ systems
Definition
Let be a compact smooth -manifold. A properly embedded surface is two-sided if it has a product neighbourhood in . A compressing disk for a two-sided surface is an embedded disk with and an essential simple closed curve in ; is incompressible if it has no compressing disk. A boundary-compressing disk is an embedded disk with , where is an arc not cutting off a disk in , , and misses ; is boundary-incompressible if it has no such disk. A surface is boundary-parallel if it cobounds a product with a subsurface of , and it is essential if it is incompressible, boundary-incompressible, and not boundary-parallel. is irreducible if every embedded -sphere in its interior bounds an embedded -ball in . An incompressible torus is boundary-parallel if it cobounds a product with a component of ; is atoroidal if every incompressible torus is boundary-parallel. A Seifert fibration is a decomposition into circles with local models given by fibered solid tori; in the model , where , the core fiber has multiplicity . Fibers of multiplicity are regular and those of multiplicity greater than are exceptional. A finite family of pairwise disjoint incompressible tori is a JSJ system if every component obtained by cutting along the family is atoroidal or Seifert-fibered. It is inclusion-minimal if no proper subfamily is a JSJ system. Atoroidal does not mean hyperbolic.
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- The JSJ system detects a companion torus when it is not amalgamated Corollary
- The core pattern has a product companion torus Counterexample
- The trefoil exterior is Seifert-fibered Counterexample
- Boundary slope of an incompressible surface in a knot exterior Definition
- Pared hyperbolic structures and volume Definition
- A (2,1)-cable of the right trefoil Example
- A nonseparating incompressible longitudinal surface in a fibered exterior is a fiber Lemma
- An atoroidal piece containing an essential annulus is Seifert-fibered Lemma
- Analytic inputs for Ni's sutured knot Floer decompositions Lemma
- Atoroidal non-Seifert knot exteriors have the required topological hypotheses Lemma
- Baldwin–Sivek instanton-surgery and Newton-polygon input module Lemma
- Boundary fiber slopes are unique outside the small Seifert exceptions Lemma
- Boundary tori inject into the circle-bundle group Lemma
- Boundary-compressible annuli with torus boundary are boundary-parallel Lemma
- Boundary-compressible incompressible surfaces at torus boundary are parallel annuli Lemma
- Cutting an irreducible manifold along incompressible tori preserves irreducibility Lemma
- Essential annuli and tori in Seifert pieces are vertical or horizontal Lemma
- Essential annuli in Seifert pieces can be made vertical Lemma
- Essential companion tori for nontrivial companions and incompressible nonproduct patterns Lemma
- Essential surfaces with nonempty boundary in a solid torus are meridian disks Lemma
- Every embedded torus in a ball is compressible Lemma
- Kneser–Haken finiteness for incompressible tori Lemma
- Ni's sutured Floer and Gabai product criterion Lemma
- A-polynomial questions for knots in other 3-manifolds Open problem
- JSJ decomposition of compact knot exteriors Theorem
- Newton polygon edge slopes are boundary slopes Theorem
- Rank-one top knot Floer homology detects fibering Theorem
- Thurston hyperbolization for atoroidal knot exteriors Theorem
Dependency tree · two levels
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Sources
- Allen Hatcher, Notes on Basic 3-Manifold Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
- Walter Neumann and Gadde Swarup, Canonical decompositions of 3-manifolds (standard reference, not scraped)