An -twist spin removes a trivial arc from a knot and spins the resulting knotted arc around the boundary of a three-ball in , inserting full twists during one revolution.
Zeeman's theorem says that the complement of an -twist spin fibers over the circle with fiber the punctured -fold cyclic branched cover of the original knot. In particular, the - and -twist spins are unknotted.

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