Abstract

We study the method of deciding whether the minimal genus Seifert surfaces for the given link in the 3-sphere are unique. We give a sufficient condition for the uniqueness by using product decompositions and A-operations of sutured manifolds. We give a necessary and sufficient condition in case when the link is the boundary of a Murasugi sum of two minimal genus Seifert surfaces.

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