Cyclic branched covers of alternating knots and L-spaces

Abstract

For any alternating knot, it is known that the double branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over the knot is an L-space. We show that the three-fold cyclic branched cover is also an L-space for any genus one alternating knot.

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