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Knots with finite weight commutator subgroups
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by Charles Livingston PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 101 (1987), 195-198 Request permission

Abstract:

An example of a knot in ${S^3}$ is constructed which has a companion of winding number zero but for which the commutator subgroup of the fundamental group of the complement is of finite weight. This provides a counterexample to a conjecture made by Jonathan Simon.
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1987 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 101 (1987), 195-198
  • MSC: Primary 57M25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1987-0897094-X
  • MathSciNet review: 897094