Simple knots with unique spanning surfaces

On Irreducible 3-Manifolds Which are Sufficiently Large

Friedhelm Waldhausen · Annals of Mathematics · 1968 · 861 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Computational Geometry +6

Isotopy types of knot spanning surfaces

Wilbur Whitten · Topology · 1973 · 37 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Topology +7

Complements of Minimal Spanning Surfaces of Knots are Not Unique

W. R. Alford · Annals of Mathematics · 1970 · 33 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Combinatorics +9

Incompressible surfaces in knot spaces

Herbert C. Lyon · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1971 · 31 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Combinatorics +8

Simple knots without unique minimal surfaces

Herbert C. Lyon · Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society · 1974 · 25 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +8