On L-space knots obtained from unknotting arcs in alternating diagrams

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Authors Andrew Donald, Duncan McCoy, Faramarz Vafaee

Publication date 17 October 2019

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00401, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2019/25-23.html

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zbMATH Keywords

alternating diagrambranched double coverL-spaceunknotting crossing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: Let $D$ be a diagram of an alternating knot with unknotting number one. The branched double cover of $S^3$ branched over $D$ is an L-space obtained by half integral surgery on a knot $K_D$. We denote the set of all such knots $K_D$ by $mathcalD$. We characterize when $K_{D}inmathcalD$ is a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot. In a different direction, we show that for a given $n>0$, there are only finitely many L-space knots in $mathcalD$ with genus less than $n$.

Review text

A rational homology 3-sphere \(Y\) is an \textit{L-space} if \(\dim_{\mathbb{F}_2}\widehat{HF}(Y)=|H_1(Y;\mathbb{Z})|\), where \(\widehat{HF}\) denotes the hat flavor of Heegaard-Floer homology. One of the numerous sources of examples for L-spaces consists of taking the two-fold branched cover \(\Sigma_2(K)\) of an alternating knot \(K\) [\textit{P. Ozsváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó}, Adv. Math. 194, No. 1, 1--33 (2005; Zbl 1076.57013)]. A knot \(K \subset S^3\) is an \(\textit{L-space knot}\) if it admits a positive Dehn surgery that is an L-space. L-space knots (which include torus knots) are known to be fibered and strongly-quasipositive, however, at the time of writing, the class of L-space knots remains poorly understood. The article under review studies the following way of producing L-space knots. Let \(D\) be a (reduced) diagram of an alternating knot \(K\) with unknotting number one. By specifying an unknotting crossing \(c\) in \(D\), Montesinos' trick implies that for some knot \(K_{D,c}\), one has \[S^3_{\frac{d}{2}}(K_{D,c})=\Sigma_2(K)\] for some \(d\) with \(|d|=\operatorname{det}(K)\). Since \(K\) is alternating, \(K_{D,c}\) is an L-space knot. This article studies the set \(\mathcal{D}\) of all \(K_{D,c}\) obtained in this way. The main results provide a characterisation in terms of \(D\) of when \(K_{D,c} \in \mathcal{D}\) is a satellite knot (Theorem 1.4), a torus knot (Proposition 1.5) and a hyperbolic knot (Corollary 1.6). In Proposition 1.7, the authors also note that given \(n>0\), there are only finitely many knots in \(\mathcal{D}\) with 3-genus less than \(n\); conjecturally there are only finitely many L-space knots with a given genus [\textit{K. L. Baker} and \textit{K. Motegi}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 27, No. 4, 743--790 (2019; Zbl 1432.57002)].

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