Twisted unknots.

DOI10.1016/S1631-073X(03)00326-1MaRDI QIDQ1409729zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kimihiko Motegi, Mohamed Ait Nouh, Daniel Matignon

Publication date 22 October 2003

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S1631-073X(03)00326-1

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hyperbolic knot satellite knot torus knot twisted unknot

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Let \(D\) be a disk in the three-sphere and \(K\) a knot that meets \(D\) transversally in its interior. Let \(n\) be an integer and \(K_{D,n}\) the knot obtained from \(K\) by \(n\)-twisting along the disk \(D\). If \(K\) is trivial, then \((K,D)\) is called a twisting pair and the knot \(K_{D,n}\) is called a twisted unknot. It is well known from the Thurston uniformization theorem and the torus theorem that every knot in the three-sphere is a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot. The paper under review discusses the geometric conditions under which a twisted unknot is a torus, satellite or hyperbolic knot. Namely, it is proved that: If \((K,D)\) is a hyperbolic pair, then \(K_{D,n}\) is a hyperbolic knot for any integer \(n\), such that \(| n| >1\). If \((K,D)\) is a Seifert fibered pair, then \(K_{D,n}\) is a torus knot for any integer \(n\). The paper considers also the case where \((K,D)\) is a toroidal pair, and gives a description of the pairs \((K,n)\) for which \(K_{D,n}\) is not a satellite knot.

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