Resumen de Cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots

Fulvia Spaggiari, Alberto Cavicchioli, Beatrice Ruini

• In this paper we study the connections between cyclic presentations of groups and the fundamental group of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots. Then we show that the topology of these manifolds (and knots) arises, in a natural way, from the algebraic properties of such presentations.