Knot adjacency and satellites

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2003-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/math/0308168v1

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Geometric Topology

13 pages, 3 figures. to appear in Topology and Its Applications

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A knot K is called n-adjacent to the unknot, if K admits a projection containing n generalized crossings such that changing any m (no larger than n) of them yields a projection of the unknot. We show that a non-trivial satellite knot K is n-adjacent to the unknot, for some n>0, if and only if it is n-adjacent to the unknot in any companion solid torus. In particular, every model knot of K is n-adjacent to the unknot. Along the way of proving these results, we also show that 2-bridge knots of the form K_{p/q}, where p/q=[2q_1,2q_2] for some integers q_1,q_2, are precisely those knots that have genus one and are 2-adjacent to the unknot.

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