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Small genus knots in lens spaces
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Ken Baker, U Georgia |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 26 2005, 4:10PM |
If the exterior of a knot K in a lens space contains a genus g properly embedded incompressible orientable surface with just one boundary component that intersects the meridian of K at least 4g-1 times then K is at most 1-bridge. We will outline the proof and discuss some consequences.