On keen bridge splittings of links

Ayako Ido, Yeonhee Jang, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

In this paper, we extend the concept of {\it (strongly) keenness} for Heegaard splittings to bridge splittings, and show that, for any integers $g$, $b$ and $n$ with $g\ge 0$, $b\g…