Author
Lackenby, M
Journal title
Mathematische Annalen
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2024-04-10T18:46:30.643+01:00
Abstract
Let K be a knot in the 3-sphere. A slope p/q is said to be characterising for
K if whenever p/q surgery on K is homeomorphic, via an orientation-preserving
homeomorphism, to p/q surgery on another knot K' in the 3-sphere, then K and K'
are isotopic. It was an old conjecture of Gordon, proved by Kronheimer, Mrowka,
Ozsvath and Szabo, that every slope is characterising for the unknot. In this
paper, we show that every knot K has infinitely many characterising slopes,
confirming a conjecture of Baker and Motegi. In fact, p/q is characterising for
K provided |p| is at most |q| and |q| is sufficiently large.
Symplectic ID
708228
Download URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00457v1
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Publication type
Journal Article
Publication date
08 Oct 2018
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