• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.67-77
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• 2011

Let M be a compact orientable closed 3-manifold, and F a non-separating incompressible closed surface in M. Let M' = M - ${\eta}(F)$, where ${\eta}(F)$ is an open regular neighborhood of F in M. In the paper, we give a lower bound of genus of self-amalgamation of minimal Heegaard splitting $V'\;{\cup}_{S'}\;W'$ of M' under some conditions on the distance of the Heegaard splitting.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.773-793
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• 2005

We consider interesting conditions, one of which will be called the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property, on genus $g{\geq}2$ Heegaard splittings of compact orient able 3-manifolds. Here a Heegaard splitting $(C_1,\;C_2;\;F)$ admits the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property if there are an essential annulus Ai normally embedded in $C_i$ and an essential disk $D_j\;in\;C_j((i,\;j)=(1,\;2)\;or\;(2,\;1))$ such that ${\partial}A_i$ is disjoint from ${\partial}D_j$. It is proved that all genus $g{\geq}2$ Heegaard splittings of toroidal manifolds and Seifert fibered spaces admit the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.113-122
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• 2010

In [4], we gave a condition for a pair of unknotting tunnels of a non-trivial tunnel number one link to give a genus three Heegaard splitting of the link complement. In this paper we prove the corresponding result for tunnel number one knots.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.1989-2000
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• 2013

We show that for any given closed orientable 3-manifold M with a Heegaard surface of genus g, any positive integers b and n, there exists a knot K in M which admits a (g, b)-bridge splitting of distance greater than n with respect to the Heegaard surface except for (g, b) = (0, 1), (0, 2).

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.101-108
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• 2003

In this paper we study the connections between cyclic presentations of groups and cyclic branched coverings of (1, 1)- knots. In particular, we prove that every π-fold strongly-cyclic branched covering of a (1, 1)-knot admits a cyclic presentation for the fundamental group encoded by a Heegaard diagram of genus π.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.753-771
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• 2015

A complete invariant defined for (closed connected orientable) 3-manifolds is an invariant defined for the 3-manifolds such that any two 3-manifolds with the same invariant are homeomorphic. Further, if the 3-manifold itself can be reconstructed from the data of the complete invariant, then it is called a characteristic invariant defined for the 3-manifolds. In a previous work, a characteristic lattice point invariant defined for the 3-manifolds was constructed by using an embedding of the prime links into the set of lattice points. In this paper, a characteristic rational invariant defined for the 3-manifolds called the characteristic genus defined for the 3-manifolds is constructed by using an embedding of a set of lattice points called the PDelta set into the set of rational numbers. The characteristic genus defined for the 3-manifolds is also compared with the Heegaard genus, the bridge genus and the braid genus defined for the 3-manifolds. By using this characteristic rational invariant defined for the 3-manifolds, a smooth real function with the definition interval (-1, 1) called the characteristic genus function is constructed as a characteristic invariant defined for the 3-manifolds.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.859-893
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• 2009

In this article, we will characterize structures of geometric quotient orbifolds of G-manifold of genus two where G is a finite group of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms using the idea of handlebody orbifolds. By using the characterization, we will deduce the candidates of possible non-hyperbolic geometric quotient orbifolds case by case using W. Dunbar's work. In addition, if the G-manifold is compact, closed and the quotient orbifold's geometry is hyperbolic then we can show that the fundamental group of the quotient orbifold cannot be in the class D.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.531-544
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• 2004

We study a family of 2-bridge knots with 2-tangles in the 3-sphere admitting a genus two 1-bridge splitting. We also observe a geometric relation between (g - 1, 1)-splitting and (g,0)- splitting for g = 2,3. Moreover we construct a family of closed orientable 3-manifolds which are n-fold cyclic coverings of the 3-sphere branched over those 2-bridge knots.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.1167-1177
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• 2001

The groups generated by reflections in faces of Coxeter polyhedra in three-dimensional Thurstons spaces are considered. We develop a method for finding of finite index subgroups of Coxeter groups which uniformize three-dimensional manifolds obtained as two-fold branched coverings of manifolds of Heegaard genus one, that are lens spaces L(p, q) and the space S$^2$$\times$S$^1$.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.775-791
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• 2013

The twisted torus knots and the primitive/Seifert knots both lie on a genus 2 Heegaard surface of $S^3$. In [5], J. Dean used the twisted torus knots to provide an abundance of examples of primitive/Seifert knots. Also he showed that not all twisted torus knots are primitive/Seifert knots. In this paper, we study the other inclusion. In other words, it shows that not all primitive/Seifert knots are twisted torus knot position. In fact, we give infinitely many primitive/Seifert knots that are not twisted torus knot position.