Two-fold branched covers

DOI10.1142/S0218216514300018MaRDI QIDQ5420654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Auckly

Publication date 13 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6282

zbMATH Keywords

branched coversDehn surgeryexceptional surgerieshyperbolic geometrysymmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: Many three dimensional manifolds are two-fold branched covers of the three dimensional sphere. However, there are some that are not. This paper includes exposition about two-fold branched covers and many examples. It shows that there are three dimensional homology spheres that do not two-fold branched cover any manifold, ones that only two-fold branched cover the three dimensional sphere, ones that just two-fold branched cover a non-trivial manifold, and ones that two-fold branched cover the sphere and non-trivial manifolds. When a manifold is surgery on a knot, the possible quotients via involutions generically correspond to quotients of the knot. There can however be a finite number of surgeries for which there are exceptional additional symmetries. The included proof of this result follows the proof of Thurston's Dehn surgery theorem. The paper also includes examples of such exceptional symmetries. Since the quotients follow the behavior of knots a census of the behavior for knots with less than eleven crossings is included.

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