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Half-integral finite surgeries on knots in $S^3$

Geometric Topology 2013-10-07 v1

Abstract

Suppose that a hyperbolic knot in S3S^3 admits a finite surgery, Boyer and Zhang proved that the surgery slope must be either integral or half-integral, and they conjectured that the latter case does not happen. Using the correction terms in Heegaard Floer homology, we prove that if a hyperbolic knot in S3S^3 admits a half-integral finite surgery, then the knot must have the same knot Floer homology as one of eight non-hyperbolic knots which are known to admit such surgeries, and the resulting manifold must be one of ten spherical space forms. As knot Floer homology carries a lot of information about the knot, this gives a strong evidence to Boyer--Zhang's conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1346,
  title  = {Half-integral finite surgeries on knots in $S^3$},
  author = {Eileen Li and Yi Ni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1346},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages