Twisting with Surgery

Here’s a sequence of images I drew for a talk I gave about a month ago. I reckon there isn’t much more to say that’s not in the images. Hit flickr for larger versions.

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Twisting along a disk.

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Twisting along an annulus.

Of course, you’ll probably want the annulus embedded so that its boundary is not a trivial link…

~ by Ken Baker on November 2, 2012.