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Exceptional surgeries on knots with exceptional classes

Geometric Topology 2013-05-08 v1

Abstract

We survey aspects of classical combinatorial sutured manifold theory and show how they can be adapted to study exceptional Dehn fillings and 2-handle additions. As a consequence we show that if a hyperbolic knot β\beta in a compact, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifold MM has the property that winding number and wrapping number are not equal with respect to a non-trivial class in H2(M,\boundaryM)H_2(M,\boundary M), then, with only a few possible exceptions, every 3-manifold MM' obtained by Dehn surgery on β\beta with surgery distance Δ2\Delta \geq 2 will be hyperbolic.

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@article{arxiv.1305.1597,
  title  = {Exceptional surgeries on knots with exceptional classes},
  author = {Scott A. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1597},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This paper is written in the style of a survey article. Comments are welcome

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