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Asymmetric L-space knots

Geometric Topology 2021-01-06 v1

Abstract

We construct the first examples of asymmetric L-space knots in S3S^3. More specifically, we exhibit a construction of hyperbolic knots in S3S^3 with both (i) a surgery that may be realized as a surgery on a strongly invertible link such that the result of the surgery is the double branched cover of an alternating link and (ii) trivial isometry group. In particular, this produces L-space knots in S3S^3 which are not strongly invertible. The construction also immediately extends to produce asymmetric L-space knots in any lens space, including S1×S2S^1 \times S^2.

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@article{arxiv.1710.01655,
  title  = {Asymmetric L-space knots},
  author = {Kenneth L. Baker and John Luecke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01655},
  year   = {2021}
}
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