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How natural of a geometric operation is Murasugi sum?

Kindred, Thomas
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Gabai proved that any Murasugi sum of $π_1$-essential Seifert surfaces is also $π_1$-essential, and Ozawa extended this result to unoriented spanning surfaces. We show, however, that the analogous statement about geometrically essential surfaces is untrue. (A spanning surface is geometrically essent
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