Knot adjacency and fibering
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It is known that the Alexander polynomial detects fibered knots and 3-manifolds that fiber over the circle. In this note, we show that when the Alexander polynomial becomes inconclusive, the notion of "knot adjacency", studied in the paper "Knot adjacency, genus and essential tori" by the authors, can be used to obtain obstructions to fibering of knots and of 3-manifolds. As an application, given a fibered knot K', we construct infinitely many non-fibered knots that share the same Alexander module and the same Vassiliev invariants up to certain orders with K'. Our construction also provides, for every natural number n, examples of irreducible 3-manifolds that cannot be distinguished by the Cochran-Melvin finite type invariants of order < n.
18 pages. To appear in Transactions of the AMS
18 pages. To appear in Transactions of the AMS