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Cosmetic surgery on knots

Geometric Topology 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

This paper concerns the Dehn surgery construction, especially those Dehn surgeries leaving the manifold unchanged. In particular, we describe an oriented 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold X with a pair of slopes r_1, r_2 such that the Dehn filled manifolds X(r_1), X(r_2) are oppositely oriented copies of the lens space L(49,18), and there is no homeomorphism h of X such that h(r_1)=h(r_2).

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@article{arxiv.math/9911247,
  title  = {Cosmetic surgery on knots},
  author = {Steven A. Bleiler and Craig D. Hodgson and Jeffrey R. Weeks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9911247},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper2.abs.html