English

Finite slope cyclic surgeries along toroidal Brunnian links and generalized Properties P and R

Geometric Topology 2015-04-17 v2

Abstract

Let MλM_{\lambda} be the λ\lambda-component Milnor link. For λ3\lambda \ge 3, we determine completely when a finite slope surgery along MλM_{\lambda} yields a lens space including S3S^3 and S1×S2S^1\times S^2, where {\it finite slope surgery} implies that a surgery coefficient of every component is not \infty. For λ=3\lambda =3 (i.e.\ the Borromean rings), there are three infinite sequences of finite slope surgeries yielding lens spaces. For λ4\lambda \ge 4, any finite slope surgery does not yield a lens space. As a corollary, MλM_{\lambda} for λ3\lambda \ge 3 does not yield both S3S^3 and S1×S2S^1\times S^2 by any finite slope surgery. We generalize the results for the cases of {\it Brunnian type links} and toroidal Brunnian type links (i.e.\ Brunnian type links including essential tori in the link complement). Our main tools are Alexander polynomials and Reidemeister torsions. Moreover we characterized toroidal Brunnian links and toroidal Brunnian type links in some senses.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01321,
  title  = {Finite slope cyclic surgeries along toroidal Brunnian links and generalized Properties P and R},
  author = {Teruhisa Kadokami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01321},
  year   = {2015}
}

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29 pages, 6 figures