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CYCLIC BRANCHED COVERS OF ALTERNATING KNOTS AND L-SPACES

  • TERAGAITO, MASAKAZU (DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY)
  • Received : 2014.06.30
  • Published : 2015.07.31
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Abstract

For any alternating knot, it is known that the double branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over the knot is an L-space. We show that the three-fold cyclic branched cover is also an L-space for any genus one alternating knot.

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Supported by : Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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