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Uniqueness of higher genus bridge surfaces for torus knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

ALEXANDER ZUPAN
ALEXANDER ZUPAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1200, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We show that a torus knot which is not 2-bridge has a unique irreducible bridge splitting of positive genus.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 159 , Issue 1 , July 2015 , pp. 79 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2015 

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