English

Irreducible 3-manifolds that cannot be obtained by 0-surgery on a knot

Geometric Topology 2019-10-17 v3

Abstract

We give two infinite families of examples of closed, orientable, irreducible 3-manifolds MM such that b1(M)=1b_1(M)=1 and π1(M)\pi_1(M) has weight 1, but MM is not the result of Dehn surgery along a knot in the 3-sphere. This answers a question of Aschenbrenner, Friedl and Wilton, and provides the first examples of irreducible manifolds with b1=1b_1=1 that are known not to be surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere. One family consists of Seifert fibered 3-manifolds, while each member of the other family is not even homology cobordant to any Seifert fibered 3-manifold. None of our examples are homology cobordant to any manifold obtained by Dehn surgery along a knot in the 3-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08620,
  title  = {Irreducible 3-manifolds that cannot be obtained by 0-surgery on a knot},
  author = {Matthew Hedden and Min Hoon Kim and Thomas E. Mark and Kyungbae Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08620},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages, 8 figures; final version, to appear in Transactions of the AMS