Studying surfaces via closed braids
| dc.creator | Birman, Joan S. | |
| dc.creator | Finkelstein, Elizabeth | |
| dc.date | 1998-04-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:24:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:24:19Z | |
| dc.description | This is a review article on the Bennequin-Birman-Menasco machinery for studying embedded incompressible surfaces in 3-space via their `braid foliations'. Two cases are investigated: case (1) The surface has non-empty boundary; the boundary is a knot or link which is represented as a closed braid, Case (2) The surface is closed, but it lies in the complement of a knot or link which is represented as a closed braid. The main results in the area are established with full proofs, in a systematic fashion, with an eye toward making them accessible to the beginning reader. There are some new contributions, described in detail in the introduction. | |
| dc.description | 61 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9804028 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9804028 | |
| dc.identifier | Jnl Knot Th 7, No.3 (1998), 267-334 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/76794 | |
| dc.subject | Geometric Topology | |
| dc.subject | 57M25,57M50 | |
| dc.title | Studying surfaces via closed braids | |
| dc.type | text |