FINDING PLANAR SURFACES IN KNOT- AND LINK-MANIFOLDS
FINDING PLANAR SURFACES IN KNOT- AND LINK-MANIFOLDS
It is shown that given any link-manifold, there is an algorithm to decide if the manifold contains an embedded, essential planar surface; if it does, the algorithm will construct one. Two similar results are obtained with added boundary conditions. Namely, given a link-manifold M, a component B of ∂M, and …