Timeline for Knot symmetries and the Alexander polynomial
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 19:22 | vote | accept | Jim Conant | ||
| Jan 20, 2012 at 18:58 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 18:08 | comment | added | Ian Agol | I don't know the reference, but if it's any help, one can show that there is a minimal-genus Seifert surface left invariant by the involution. Also, the involution must have fixed point set an unknot by the Smith conjecture, so your knot is a branched cover over some other knot. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 16:33 | history | asked | Jim Conant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |