Uncountably many wild knots whose cyclic branched covering are \(S^3\) (Q1431103)

The author gives the construction of a wild disk \(\Delta\) whose interior is a PL embedded open disk in \(\mathbb S^3\) and whose boundary is a simple closed curve \(K\) in \(\mathbb S^3\). The set \(T\) of points at which \(\Delta\) is not locally tame is a tamely embedded Cantor set. Then he proves that \(K\) is a prime, non trivial knot, but the \(n\)--fold cyclic covering of \(\mathbb S^3\) branched over it is \(\mathbb S^3\), for every \(n\geq 2\). The preimage of \(K\) is a simple closed curve in \(\mathbb S^3\) bounding a disk, and the set of points at which it is not locally tame is a wildly embedded Cantor set covering T. Moreover, an uncountable set of inequivalent wild knots with these properties is constructed. These results are in contradiction to the PL case in which there exists exactly one such knot, namely, the trivial knot.