Scharlemann's conjecture on reducible refills of a genus-two handlebody
Scharlemann's conjecture on reducible refills of a genus-two handlebody
Let be a genus-two handlebody embedded in a 3-manifold , and let and be essential discs in whose refills produce exteriors and . Suppose is admissible, meaning that every sphere in separates, has no lens-space connected summands, any two curves in compressible in are isotopic in , is irreducible, and is incompressible in . Scharlemann's conjecture. If is admissible, then at least one of the following occurs: and is unknotted, at least one of and is irreducible and boundary-irreducible, or and are aligned in . The conjecture describes the exceptional configurations in which both refilled exteriors can fail to be irreducible and boundary-irreducible; the source does not provide enough information here to determine its resolution status.
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Primary source
Scott A. Taylor, “Boring split links”, arXiv:0709.4051 (2009).
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