Let be a smooth knot and let be an integer. The exterior of its -twist-spun knot in is a fiber bundle over a circle, with fiber the -fold cyclic branched covering of along with an open three-ball removed. For the open complement, use the corresponding branched cover with a point removed. Its monodromy comes from the cyclic deck action.[ref]
For , the branched cover is , the compact fiber is a three-ball, and the resulting two-dimensional surface knot is unknotted. Zero-twist spinning is ordinary spinning and is excluded from this nonzero-twist fibration theorem; a zero-fold branched cover is not its fiber.[ref]

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