English

Cosmetic banding on knots and links

Geometric Topology 2017-02-14 v2

Abstract

We present various examples of cosmetic bandings on knots and links, that is, bandings on knots and links leaving their types unchanged. As a byproduct, we give a hyperbolic knot which admits exotic chirally cosmetic surgeries yielding hyperbolic manifolds. This gives a counterexample to a conjecture raised by Bleiler, Hodgson and Weeks.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01542,
  title  = {Cosmetic banding on knots and links},
  author = {Kazuhiro Ichihara and In Dae Jong and Hidetoshi Masai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01542},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, 15 figures, with an appendix by Hidetoshi Masai