An explicit relation between knot groups in lens spaces and those in S3

Abstract: For a cyclic covering map

(S i g m a, K) o (S i g m a^{'}, K^{'})

between two pairs of a 3-manifold and a knot each, we describe the fundamental group

p i_{1} (S i g m a s e t m i n u s K)

in terms of

p i_{1} (S i g m a^{'} s e t m i n u s K^{'})

. As a consequence, we give an alternative proof for the fact that certain knots in

S^{3}

cannot be represented as the preimage of any knot in a lens space, which is related to free periods of knots. In our proofs, the subgroup of a group

G

generated by the commutators and the

p

th power of each element of

G

plays a key role.

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