Trisections induced by the Gluck surgery along certain spun knots

Abstract

Gay and Meier asked whether or not a trisection diagram obtained by the Gluck twist on a spun or a twist spun 2-knot obtained from some method is standard. In this paper, we depict the trisection diagrams explicitly when the 2- knot is the spun $(2n+1,-2)$-torus knot, where $n\ge 1$, and show that the trisection diagram is standard when $n=1$. Moreover, we introduce a notion of homologically standard for trisection diagrams and show that the trisection diagram is homologically standard for all $n$.

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