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Hyperbolic tunnel-number-one knots with Seifert-fibered Dehn surgeries

Geometric Topology 2020-04-05 v1

Abstract

Suppose α\alpha and RR are disjoint simple closed curves in the boundary of a genus two handlebody HH such that H[R]H[R] embeds in S3S^3 as the exterior of a hyperbolic knot kk(thus, kk is a tunnel-number-one knot), and α\alpha is Seifert in HH(i.e., a 2-handle addition H[α]H[\alpha] is a Seifert-fibered space) and not the meridian of H[R]H[R]. Then for a slope γ\gamma of kk represented by α\alpha, γ\gamma-Dehn surgery k(γ)k(\gamma) is a Seifert-fibered space. Such a construction of Seifert-fibered Dehn surgeries generalizes that of Seifert-fibered Dehn surgeries arising from primtive/Seifert positions of a knot, which was introduced in [D03]. In this paper, we show that there exists a meridional curve MM of kk (or H[R]H[R]) in H\partial H such that α\alpha intersects MM transversely in exactly one point. It follows that such a construction of a Seifert-fibered Dehn surgery k(γ)k(\gamma) can arise from a primtive/Seifert position of kk with γ\gamma its surface-slope. This result supports partially the two conjectures: (1) any Seifert-fibered surgery on a hyperbolic knot in S3S^3 is integral, and (2) any Seifert-fibered surgery on a hyperbolic tunnel-number-one knot arises from a primitive/Seifert position whose surface slope corresponds to the surgery slope.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13978,
  title  = {Hyperbolic tunnel-number-one knots with Seifert-fibered Dehn surgeries},
  author = {Sungmo Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13978},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, 18 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.13971