Strongly-cyclic branched coverings of (1, 1)-knots and cyclic presentations of groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004103006686zbMATH Open1050.57003arXivmath/0110042OpenAlexW2147239033MaRDI QIDQ4457860FDOQ4457860

Michele Mulazzani, Alessia Cattabringa

Publication date: 17 March 2004

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the connections among the mapping class group of the twice punctured torus, the cyclic branched coverings of (1,1)-knots and the cyclic presentations of groups. We give the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the n-fold strongly-cyclic branched coverings of (1,1)-knots, through the elements of the mapping class group. We prove that every n-fold strongly-cyclic branched covering of a (1,1)-knot admits a cyclic presentation for the fundamental group, arising from a Heegaard splitting of genus n. Moreover, we give an algorithm to produce the cyclic presentation and illustrate it in the case of cyclic branched coverings of torus knots of type (k,hk+1) and (k,hk-1).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110042

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupHeegaard splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

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