Symmetric representations of knot groups

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(84)90015-4MaRDI QIDQ762805zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Allan L. Edmonds, Charles Livingston

Publication date 1984

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(84)90015-4

zbMATH Keywords

4-fold simple branched cover of \(S^ 3\)branching setrepresentations of a knot groupsymmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Review text

Given elements \(\mu\), \(\lambda\) in the symmetric group, \(S_ n\), when does there exist a knot \(k\subset S^ 3\) and a representation \(\pi_ 1(S^ 3-k)\to S_ n\) taking the meridian to \(\mu\) and the longitude to \(\lambda\) ? This paper provides the necessary and sufficient conditions: 1) \(\mu\) and \(\lambda\) commute, 2) \(\lambda\) lies in the second commutator subgroup of the normal closure of \(\mu\), and 3) the Pontryagin product \(<\mu,\lambda >=0\). A corollary shows that in any 4-fold simple (meridian corresponds to a transposition) branched cover of \(S^ 3\), branched over a knot, the branching set has exactly three components. This settles problem 1.24 of \textit{R. Kirby} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 32, Part 2, 273-312 (1978; Zbl 0394.57002)]. As pointed out in an addendum, this work overlaps with \textit{D. Johnson}, Peripherally specified homomorphisms of knot groups, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. (to appear).

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