Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2005-06-25
L'enseignement Mathe'matique (2) 52 (2006), 319--359
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
30 pages, 15 figures. V5: minor revision. Notes for V5: Fixed a typo in the statement of the Brunnian properties, and clarifie
Scientific paper
This paper is a survey of some of the most elementary consequences of the JSJ-decomposition and geometrization for knot and link complements in the 3-sphere. Formulated in the language of graphs, the result is the construction of a bijective correspondence between the isotopy classes of links in $S^3$ and a class of vertex-labelled, finite acyclic graphs, called companionship graphs. This construction can be thought of as a uniqueness theorem for Schubert's `satellite operations.' We identify precisely which graphs are companionship graphs of knots and links respectively. We also describe how a large family of operations on knots and links affects companionship graphs. This family of operations is called `splicing' and includes, among others, the operations of: cabling, connect-sum, Whitehead doubling and the deletion of a component.
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