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Infinitely many knots admitting the same integer surgery

Geometric Topology 2014-07-08 v1

Abstract

The construction of knots via annular twisting has been used to create families of knots yielding the same manifold via Dehn surgery. Prior examples have all involved Dehn surgery where the surgery slope is an integral multiple of 2. In this note we prove that for any integer nn there exist infinitely many different knots in S3S^3 such that nn-surgery on those knots yields the same manifold. In particular, when n=1|n|=1 homology spheres arise from these surgeries. In addition, when n0n \neq 0 the bridge numbers of the knots constructed tend to infinity as the number of twists along the annulus increases.

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@article{arxiv.1407.1529,
  title  = {Infinitely many knots admitting the same integer surgery},
  author = {John Luecke and John Osoinach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1529},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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