Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots and turned twisted tori
Abstract
We prove that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot in is smoothly preserved when four twists are added, and that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot connected sum with a trivial projective plane is preserved after two twists are added. As a consequence, we conclude that the members of a family of homotopy s recently constructed by Miyazawa are each diffeomorphic to . We also apply our techniques to show that the double branched covers of odd-twisted turned tori are all diffeomorphic to , and show that a family of homotopy 4-spheres constructed by Juh\'asz and Powell are all diffeomorphic to .
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@article{arxiv.2402.11706,
title = {Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots and turned twisted tori},
author = {Mark Hughes and Seungwon Kim and Maggie Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11706},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
New results have been added regarding the double branched covers of turned twisted tori, mainly centered around Theorems 1.9 to 1.11. This version is 15 pages with 7 figures. Comments welcome!