{"title":"Torus decomposition and foliation detected slopes","authors":"Qingfeng Lyu","doi":"10.1112/topo.70088","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>1</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_1$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> and <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_2$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> be knot manifolds and <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <mrow>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mo>=</mo>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>1</mn>\n </msub>\n <msub>\n <mo>∪</mo>\n <mi>f</mi>\n </msub>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n </mrow>\n <annotation>$M=M_1\\cup _f M_2$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> be the closed manifold obtained by gluing up <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>1</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_1$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> and <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_2$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> via <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <mrow>\n <mi>f</mi>\n <mo>:</mo>\n <mi>∂</mi>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>1</mn>\n </msub>\n <mover>\n <mo>→</mo>\n <mo>≅</mo>\n </mover>\n <mi>∂</mi>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n </mrow>\n <annotation>$f:\\partial M_1\\xrightarrow {\\cong } \\partial M_2$</annotation>\n </semantics></math>. We show that if <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <annotation>$M$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> admits a co-oriented taut foliation, then <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <mi>f</mi>\n <annotation>$f$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> identifies some CTF-detected rational boundary slopes of <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>1</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_1$</annotation>\n </semantics></math> and <span></span><math>\n <semantics>\n <msub>\n <mi>M</mi>\n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n <annotation>$M_2$</annotation>\n </semantics></math>, affirming a conjecture proposed in Boyer, McA Gordon, and Hu [Adv. Math. <b>495</b> (2026), 110956].</p>","PeriodicalId":56114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Topology","volume":"19 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Topology","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1112/topo.70088","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Let and be knot manifolds and be the closed manifold obtained by gluing up and via . We show that if admits a co-oriented taut foliation, then identifies some CTF-detected rational boundary slopes of and , affirming a conjecture proposed in Boyer, McA Gordon, and Hu [Adv. Math. 495 (2026), 110956].
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The Journal of Topology publishes papers of high quality and significance in topology, geometry and adjacent areas of mathematics. Interesting, important and often unexpected links connect topology and geometry with many other parts of mathematics, and the editors welcome submissions on exciting new advances concerning such links, as well as those in the core subject areas of the journal.
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