Abstract
It is known that every closed, orientable 3-manifold contains a fi-bered knot—a simple closed curve whose complement is a surface bundle over S1. For K such a fibered knot in a rational homology 3-sphere M it is shown that for any compact submanifold X of M containing K as a null-homologous subset, each component of ∂X is compressible in M−K. If K is a doubled knot (bounds a disk with one clasp) then it follows that K is a double of the trivial knot. More generally, it follows that the genus of X (minimum number of one-handles) is less than the genus of M.
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