Prime amphicheiral knots with free period 2

DOI10.1017/S0013091519000257zbMATH Open1440.57010arXiv1804.03188OpenAlexW2797169679WikidataQ127302977 ScholiaQ127302977MaRDI QIDQ5111607FDOQ5111607

Makoto Sakuma, Luisa Paoluzzi

Publication date: 27 May 2020

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

Abstract: We construct prime amphicheiral knots that have free period 2. This settles an open question raised by the second named author, who proved that amphicheiral hyperbolic knots cannot admit free periods and that prime amphicheiral knots cannot admit free periods of order >2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03188

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryamphicheiral knotprime knotfree period

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Knot theory (57K10)

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Uses Software

• SnapPea
• SnapPy
• hikmot

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