Conway Products and Links with Multiple Bridge Surfaces
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چکیده
Suppose a link K in a 3-manifold M is in bridge position with respect to two different bridge surfaces P and Q, both of which are c-weakly incompressible in the complement of K. Then either • P and Q can be properly isotoped to intersect in a nonempty collection of curves that are essential on both surfaces, or • K is a Conway product with respect to an incompressible Conway sphere that naturally decomposes both P and Q into bridge surfaces for the respective factor link(s).
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