Noncyclic covers of knot complements

DOI10.1007/S10711-004-1993-YzbMATH Open1076.57006arXivmath/0401120OpenAlexW3100057265MaRDI QIDQ2487751FDOQ2487751

Authors: Nathan Broaddus 

Publication date: 8 August 2005

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hempel has shown that the fundamental groups of knot complements are residually finite. This implies that every nontrivial knot must have a finite-sheeted, noncyclic cover. We give an explicit bound, $Phi(c)$, such that if $K$ is a nontrivial knot in the three-sphere with a diagram with $c$ crossings and a particularly simple JSJ decomposition then the complement of $K$ has a finite-sheeted, noncyclic cover with at most $Phi(c)$ sheets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0401120

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zbMATH Keywords

knot complementfinite index subgroupfinite-sheeted cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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