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Surfaces bounding a knot or a link.

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Seifert surfaces of torus knots

Does anyone know a nice description of a Seifert surface of a torus knot? I can construct such surfaces in band projection, but what I get is ugly and unwieldy. Is there some elegant description for ...
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