Cosmetic two‐strand twists on fibered knots
Cosmetic two‐strand twists on fibered knots
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DOI:
10.1112/topo.12164
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发表时间:
2020
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1.1
通讯作者:
C. Rogers
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作者:
C. Rogers
Let K be a knot in a rational homology sphere M . This paper investigates the question of when modifying K by adding m>0 half‐twists to two oppositely oriented strands, while keeping the rest of K fixed, produces a knot isotopic to K . Such a two‐strand twist of order m , as we define it, is a generalized crossing change when m is even and a non‐coherent band surgery when m=±1 . A cosmetic two‐strand twist on K is a non‐nugatory one that produces an isotopic knot. We prove that fibered knots in M admit no cosmetic generalized crossing changes. Further, we show that if K is fibered, then a two‐strand twist of odd order m that is determined by a separating arc in a fiber surface for K can only be cosmetic if m=±1 .