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Injectively immersed tori in branched covers over the figure eight knot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Kerry N. Jones
Kerry N. Jones
Affiliation:
The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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An algorithm is given for determining presence or absence of injectively (at the fundamental group level) immersed tori (and constructing them, if present) in a branched cover of S3, branched over the figure eight knot, with all branching indices greater than 2. Such tori are important for understanding the topology of 3-manifolds in light of (for example) the Jaco-Shalen–Johannson torus decomposition theorem and the fact that the figure eight knot is universal, i.e., that all 3-manifolds are representable as branched covers of S3, branched over the figure eight knot.

The algorithm is principally geometric in its derivation and graph-theoretic in its operation. It is applied to two examples, one of which has an incompressible torus and the other of which is atoroidal.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 231 - 259
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1993

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