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On L-space knots obtained from unknotting arcs in alternating diagrams

Geometric Topology 2021-11-01 v2

Abstract

Let DD be a diagram of an alternating knot with unknotting number one. The branched double cover of S3S^3 branched over DD is an L-space obtained by half integral surgery on a knot KDK_D. We denote the set of all such knots KDK_D by D\mathcal D. We characterize when KDDK_D\in \mathcal D is a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot. In a different direction, we show that for a given n>0n>0, there are only finitely many L-space knots in D\mathcal D with genus less than nn.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00401,
  title  = {On L-space knots obtained from unknotting arcs in alternating diagrams},
  author = {Andrew Donald and Duncan McCoy and Faramarz Vafaee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00401},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, 20 figures. Uploaded to match version published in New York J. Math. Substantially extended exposition