On L-space knots obtained from unknotting arcs in alternating diagrams
Geometric Topology
2021-11-01 v2
Abstract
Let be a diagram of an alternating knot with unknotting number one. The branched double cover of branched over is an L-space obtained by half integral surgery on a knot . We denote the set of all such knots by . We characterize when is a torus knot, a satellite knot or a hyperbolic knot. In a different direction, we show that for a given , there are only finitely many L-space knots in with genus less than .
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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}
}
Comments
22 pages, 20 figures. Uploaded to match version published in New York J. Math. Substantially extended exposition