English

Dehn surgeries on knots which yield lens spaces and genera of knots

Geometric Topology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Let KK be a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere. If rr-surgery on KK yields a lens space, then we show that the order of the fundamental group of the lens space is at most 12g712g-7, where gg is the genus of KK. If we specialize to genus one case, it will be proved that no lens space can be obtained from genus one, hyperbolic knots by Dehn surgery. Therefore, together with known facts, we have that a genus one knot KK admits Dehn surgery yielding a lens space if and only if KK is the trefoil.

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@article{arxiv.math/9902157,
  title  = {Dehn surgeries on knots which yield lens spaces and genera of knots},
  author = {Hiroshi Goda and Masakazu Teragaito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9902157},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, 6 figures