Weakly strong Neuwirth conjecture for prime non-torus knots

Let KK be a prime non-torus knot, let FF be a non-orientable spanning surface for KK, and let E(K)E(K) be the exterior of KK. The surface FE(K)F\cap E(K) is required to be geometrically incompressible and boundary incompressible. Weakly strong Neuwirth conjecture. For any prime non-torus knot KK, there exists a non-orientable spanning surface FF for KK such that FE(K)F\cap E(K) is geometrically incompressible and boundary incompressible. The paper introduces this as a weakening of the Strong Neuwirth conjecture and states that it is also unknown.

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Makoto Ozawa and J. Hyam Rubinstein, “On the Neuwirth conjecture for knots”, arXiv:1103.2576 (2011).

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