Bitwist manifolds and two-bridge knots

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.284.1zbMATH Open1347.57003arXiv1306.4564OpenAlexW3099710554MaRDI QIDQ305129FDOQ305129

James W. Cannon, William Floyd, W. R. Parry, LeeR Lambert, Jessica S. Purcell

Publication date: 29 August 2016

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give uniform, explicit, and simple face-pairing descriptions of all the branched cyclic covers of the 3-sphere, branched over two-bridge knots. Our method is to use the bi-twisted face-pairing constructions of Cannon, Floyd, and Parry; these examples show that the bi-twist construction is often efficient and natural. Finally, we give applications to computations of fundamental groups and homology of these branched cyclic covers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4564

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zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knotsbitwisted face-paringscyclic branched covers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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