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Cosmetic surgery and the $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Casson invariant for two-bridge knots

Geometric Topology 2016-05-25 v2

Abstract

We consider the cosmetic surgery problem for two-bridge knots in the 3-sphere. It is seen that all the two-bridge knots at most 9 crossings other than 927=S(49,19)=C[2,2,2,2,2,2]9_{27} = S(49,19)=C[2,2,-2,2,2,-2] admits no purely cosmetic surgery pairs. Then we show that any two-bridge knot of the Conway form [2x,2,2x,2x,2,2x][2x,2,-2x,2x,2,-2x] with x1x \ge 1 admits no cosmetic surgery pairs yielding homology 3-spheres, where 9279_{27} appears for x=1x=1. Our advantage to prove this is using the SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbb{C}) Casson invariant.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02371,
  title  = {Cosmetic surgery and the $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Casson invariant for two-bridge knots},
  author = {Kazuhiro Ichihara and Toshio Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02371},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures. Version 2: Corrected typos