Makoto Ozawa

Department of Natural Sciences,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Komazawa University,
1-23-1 Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154-8525, JAPAN.

Title: Coexistence of coiled surfaces and spanning surfaces for knots and links

Abstract: It is a well-known procedure for constructing a torus knot or link that, first, we prepare an unknotted torus and meridian disks in the complementary solid tori of it, and, secondly, smooth the intersections of the boundary of meridian disks uniformly. Then we obtain a torus knot or link on the unknotted torus and its Seifert surface made of meridian disks. In the present paper, we generalize this procedure by a closed fake surface, and show that the resultant two surfaces obtained by smoothing triple points uniformly are essential. We also show that a knot obtained by this procedure satisfies the Neuwirth conjecture, and the distance of two boundary slopes for the knot is equal to the number of triple points of the closed fake surface.