Genera of two-bridge knots and epimorphisms of their knot groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.04.011MaRDI QIDQ1637110zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masaaki Suzuki, Anh T. Tran

Publication date 7 June 2018

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03592

zbMATH Keywords

epimorphismgenusknot grouptwo-bridge knot

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Abstract: Let $K,K^{\prime }$ be two-bridge knots of genus $n,k$ respectively. We show the necessary and sufficient condition of $n$ in terms of $k$ that there exists an epimorphism from the knot group of $K$ onto that of $K^{\prime }$.

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