Symmetries and hidden symmetries of \((\varepsilon, d_L)\)-twisted knot complements (Q2163644)

Two manifolds are \textit{commensurable} if they have a common finite-sheeted cover. It is conjectured that there are at most three hyperbolic knot complements in a commensurability class, and this is known for a hyperbolic knot complement which has no hidden symmetries; here a \textit{hidden symmetry} of a hyperbolic 3-manifold \(M\) is a symmetry of a finite-sheeted cover of \(M\) that does not come from a symmetry of \(M\). There are only three hyperbolic knot complements known to admit hidden symmetries, and it is known that various classes of knot complements do not have hidden symmetries (e.g., 2-bridge knot complements). The main result of the present paper states that an \((\varepsilon, d_L)\)-twisted knot complement has no hidden symmetries; these are complements of knots which have a sufficiently large number of twists in each of their twist regions and can be constructed via long Dehn fillings on fully augmented link complements. ``Under mild additional hypotheses, we show that these knots have at most four (orientation-preserving) symmetries and are the only knot complements in their respective commensurability classes. Finally, we provide an infinite family of explicit examples of \((\varepsilon, d_L)\)-twisted knot complements that are the unique knot complements in their respective commensurability classes obtained by filling a fully augmented link complement with four crossing circles.''