Strongly-cyclic branched coverings of knots via \((g,1)\)-decompositions

DOI10.1007/s10474-007-6029-2zbMath1164.57001arXivmath/0402393MaRDI QIDQ2460676

Michele Mulazzani, Andrei Vesnin, Paola Cristofori

Publication date: 12 November 2007

Published in: Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402393

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard diagrams; Heegaard splittings; presentations of groups; cyclic branched coverings; \((g,1)\)-decompositions; \((g,1)\)-knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

57M12: Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings

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