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Invariant Seifert surfaces for strongly invertible knots

  • Mikami Hirasawa

    Nagoya Institute of Technology Showa-ku, Japan

  • Ryota Hiura

    Inuyama-Minami High School Hasuike 2-21, Japan

  • Makoto Sakuma

    Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
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Abstract

We study invariant Seifert surfaces for strongly invertible knots, and prove that the gap between the equivariant genus (the minimum of the genera of invariant Seifert surfaces) of a strongly invertible knot and the (usual) genus of the underlying knot can be arbitrarily large. This forms a sharp contrast with Edmonds' theorem that every periodic knot admits an invariant minimal genus Seifert surface. We also prove variants of Edmonds' theorem, which are useful in studying invariant Seifert surfaces for strongly invertible knots.