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 admits no purely cosmetic surgery pairs. Then we show that any two-bridge knot of the Conway form with admits no cosmetic surgery pairs yielding homology 3-spheres, where appears for . Our advantage to prove this is using the 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