Incompressible surfaces in link complements
Abstract
We generalize a theorem of Finkelstein and Moriah and show that if a link L has a 2n-plat projection satisfying certain conditions, then its complement contains some closed essential surfaces. In most cases these surfaces remain essential after any totally nontrivial surgery on L.
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