2020
DOI: 10.1112/topo.12164
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Cosmetic two‐strand twists on fibered knots

Abstract: 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 cosm… Show more

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“…In fact, Theorem 1.2 immediately implies the Cosmetic Crossing Conjecture for the unknot, originally due to Scharlemann-Thompson [ST89]. This conjecture is still open in general, but has been established for knots which are two-bridge [Tor99] or fibered [Kal12,Rog20], as well as for large classes of knots which are genus one [BFKP12,Ito21] or alternating [LM17]. In the second half of this paper, we illustrate the utility of this theory by giving elementary proofs of two other known results about the Cosmetic Crossing Conjecture.…”
Section: Here Are Two Classical Open Conjectures In Low Dimensional T...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, Theorem 1.2 immediately implies the Cosmetic Crossing Conjecture for the unknot, originally due to Scharlemann-Thompson [ST89]. This conjecture is still open in general, but has been established for knots which are two-bridge [Tor99] or fibered [Kal12,Rog20], as well as for large classes of knots which are genus one [BFKP12,Ito21] or alternating [LM17]. In the second half of this paper, we illustrate the utility of this theory by giving elementary proofs of two other known results about the Cosmetic Crossing Conjecture.…”
Section: Here Are Two Classical Open Conjectures In Low Dimensional T...mentioning
confidence: 99%