Commensurability classes of (- 2,3,n) pretzel knot complements

DOI10.2140/AGT.2008.8.1833MaRDI QIDQ1007173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0112

commensurability class pretzel knot trace field

Abstract: Let K be a hyperbolic (-2,3,n) pretzel knot and M = S^3 K its complement. For these knots, we verify a conjecture of Reid and Walsh: there are at most three knot complements in the commensurability class of M. Indeed, if n eq 7, we show that M is the unique knot complement in its class. We include examples to illustrate how our methods apply to a broad class of Montesinos knots.

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Two hyperbolic 3-manifolds are commensurable if they have homeomorphic finite-sheeted covering spaces. It is known that if a hyperbolic knot \(K\) (1) admits no hidden symmetries, (2) has no lens space surgery and (3) admits either no symmetries or else only a strong inversion and no other symmetries, then \(S^3/K\) is the only knot complement in its commensurability class. For a \((-2, 3, n)\)-pretzel knot \(K\), it is known that \(K\) satisfies properties (2) and (3) with some integers \(n\) as an exception. In this paper the authors prove that a hyperbolic \((-2, 3, n)\)-pretzel knot \(K\) has property (1) by showing a sufficient condition that the trace field \(k\Gamma \) contains neither \(\mathbb{Q} (i)\) nor \(\mathbb{Q} (\sqrt{-3})\), where \(\Gamma \) is a torsion free subgroup of \(\text{PSL} _2\mathbb{C}\) with \(S^3/K \cong \mathbb{H}^3/\Gamma\) and \(k\Gamma = \mathbb{Q}(\{\text{tr}\gamma ^2 : \gamma \in \Gamma\} )\)

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