Double branched covers of tunnel number one knots

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Abstract: We provide criteria ensuring that a tunnel number one knot K is not determined by its double branched cover, in the sense that the double branched cover is also the double branched cover of a knot K′ not equivalent to K.


This paper addresses the question of when a tunnel number one knot is determined by its double branched cover, proving that the answer is always yes for alternating examples [Corollary 1] but never for satellites [Proposition 1] or those with bridge number more than four [Theorem 1]. Many results that fall between these two extremes are established for Montesinos, \(\pi\)-hyperbolic, and torus knots.



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