Weakly strong Neuwirth conjecture for prime non-torus knots

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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 F∩E(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 F∩E(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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