Doubly slice odd pretzel knots

DOI10.1090/PROC/15022MaRDI QIDQ5130886zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clayton McDonald

Publication date 29 October 2020

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12955

zbMATH Keywords

doubly slice odd pretzel knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: We prove that an odd pretzel knot is doubly slice if it has $2n+1$ twist parameters consisting of $n+1$ copies of $a$ and $n$ copies of $-a$ for some odd integer $a$. Combined with the work of Issa and McCoy, it follows that these are the only doubly slice odd pretzel knots.

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