Counting genus one fibered knots in Lens spaces

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1409932633MaRDI QIDQ464664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth L. Baker

Publication date 29 October 2014

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510391, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1409932633

zbMATH Keywords

3-braiddouble branched coverfibered knotgenus one knotlens spacetwo-bridge link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: The braid axis of a closed 3-braid lifts to a genus one fibered knot in the double cover of S^3 branched over the closed braid. Every (null homologous) genus one fibered knot in a 3-manifold may be obtained in this way. Using this perspective we answer a question of Morimoto about the number of genus one fibered knots in lens spaces. We determine the number of genus one fibered knots up to homeomorphism in any given lens space. This number is 3 in the case of the lens space L(4,1), 2 for the lens spaces L(m,1) with m>0, and at most 1 otherwise.

Review text

In this nice low-dimensional topology article, the author classifies genus one fibered knots in lens spaces. \newline A knot \(K\) in a closed orientable 3-manifold \(M\) is a genus one fibered knot if its exterior is a once-punctured torus bundle over the circle such that the boundary of every fiber is a longitude of \(K\). All such knots arise as follows: \(M\) is the double branched cover of the \(3\)-sphere branched along a closed 3-braid and \(K\) is the lift of a braid axis for the closed braid. If \(M\) is the lens space \(L(\alpha,\beta)\), then the closed braid is the two-bridge link \(\mathfrak{b}(\alpha, \beta)\). Using this point of view the author determines the number of genus one fibered knots in lens spaces, up to homeomorphism of the ambient lens spaces and up to isotopy. In particular, he answers the following question by \textit{K. Morimoto} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 41, No. 1, 81--96 (1989; Zbl 0652.57008)]: ``Are the numbers of genus one fibered knots in all lens spaces bounded? As it turns out, every lens space contains at most three genus one fibered knots up to homeomorphism, and every homeomorphism class contains at most two isotopy classes.

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• The Poincaré homology sphere, lens space surgeries, and some knots with tunnel number two
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• A cabling conjecture for knots in lens spaces
• Integral left-orderable surgeries on genus one fibered knots
• Johnson-Morita theory in mapping class groups and monoids of homology cobordisms of surfaces
• Every Lens space contains a genus one homologically fibered knot
• Complete classification of generalized crossing changes between GOF-knots

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