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Some groups which classify knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

B. Zimmermann
B. Zimmermann
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Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, 34100 Trieste, Italy
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Groups associated to a knot in S3 which classify the knot have been constructed by Conway and Gordon [4], Simon [12] and Whitten[16]; see also [1] and [19] for certain special classes of knots. In this note we show that for a knot K in S3 of the groups π1(S3/K)/〈malb〉 classify the knot; here m resp. l denote a meridian resp. longitude of the knot and 〈〉 denotes normal closure. This is based on Thurston's orbifold geometrization theorem [13–15] and the following result (see also [8, 19]):

Theorem 1. Let O1 and O2 be good closed irreducible 3-orbifolds which possess a decomposition into geometric pieces (along Euclidean 2-suborbifolds, see [2, 15]) and have infinite (orbifold-) fundamental group. Then O1 and O2 are diffeomorphic (as orbifolds) if and only if π1 O1 and π1 02 are isomorphic.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , November 1988 , pp. 417 - 419
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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