FINITE COVERS OF THE INFINITE CYCLIC COVER OF A KNOT

DOI10.1142/S0218216509006811zbMATH Open1165.57002arXivmath/0703708MaRDI QIDQ3608724FDOQ3608724

Authors: Jack Button 

Publication date: 5 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the commutator subgroup G' of a classical knot group G need not have subgroups of every finite index, but it will if G' has a surjective homomorphism to the integers and we give an exact criterion for that to happen. We also give an example of a smoothly knotted n-sphere in the (n+2)-sphere for all n at least 2 whose infinite cyclic cover is not simply connected but has no proper finite covers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703708

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zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialcommutator subgroupcyclic cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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