Boundary slopes of some non-Montesinos knots

Abstract

It is shown that there exist alternating non-Montesinos knots whose essential spanning surfaces with maximal and minimal boundary slopes are not realised by the checkerboard surfaces coming from a reduced alternating planar diagram.

6 pages, 3 figures

References in corpus (1)

• A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Alternating knots with large boundary slope diameter