Distinguishing the generalized knot groups of square and granny knot analogues

DOI10.1142/S0218216519500354MaRDI QIDQ5377175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Howida Adel Alfran, Christopher Tuffley

Publication date 23 May 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07853

zbMATH Keywords

generalized knot groupsknot invariantssquare and granny knot analoguestorus knotswreath product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Knot theory (57K10) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: Given a knot $K$ we may construct a group $G_n(K)$ from the fundamental group of $K$ by adjoining an $n$th root of the meridian that commutes with the corresponding longitude. For $ngeq2$ these "generalised knot groups" determine $K$ up to reflection (Nelson and Neumann, 2008; arXiv:0804.0807). The second author has shown that for $ngeq2$, the generalised knot groups of the square knot $SK$ and the granny knot $GK$ can be distinguished by counting homomorphisms into a suitably chosen finite group (arXiv:0706.1807). We extend this result to certain generalised knot groups of square and granny knot analogues $$, $$, constructed as connect sums of $(a,b)$-torus knots of opposite or identical chiralities. More precisely, for coprime $a,bgeq2$ and $n$ satisfying a certain coprimality condition with $a$ and $b$, we construct an explicit finite group $G$ (depending on $a$, $b$ and $n$) such that $G_n(S{K}_{a,b})$ and $G_n(G{K}_a,b)$ can be distinguished by counting homomorphisms into $G$. The coprimality condition includes all $ngeq2$ coprime to $ab$. The result shows that the difference between these two groups can be detected using a finite group.

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