Knot groups with many killers

DOI10.1017/S0004972709001051zbMATH Open1194.57013arXiv0909.3275MaRDI QIDQ3564917FDOQ3564917

Authors: Daniel S. Silver, Wilbur Whitten, Susan G. Williams 

Publication date: 26 May 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The group of any nontrivial torus knot, hyperbolic 2-bridge knot, or hyperbolic knot with unknotting number one contains infinitely many elements, none the automorphic image of another, such that each normally generates the group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3275

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zbMATH Keywords

knot grouppseudo-meridian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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