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In this chapter, we study state surfaces of Montesinos links, and calculate their guts. Our main result is Theorem 8.6. In that theorem, we show that for every sufficiently complicated Montesinos link K, either K or its mirror image admits an A-adequate diagram D such that the quantity \(\vert \vert {E}_{c}\vert \vert \) of Definition 5.9 vanishes.
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Futer, D., Kalfagianni, E., Purcell, J. (2013). Montesinos Links. In: Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33302-6_8
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