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L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres

Geometric Topology 2022-12-21 v2 Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that L-space knots do not have essential Conway spheres with the technology of peculiar modules, a Floer theoretic invariant for tangles.

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@article{arxiv.2006.03521,
  title  = {L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres},
  author = {Tye Lidman and Allison H. Moore and Claudius Zibrowius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03521},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages, 11 color figures created with PSTricks and TikZ. v1: Comments welcome! v2: This version fixes a mistake that previously occurred in Figure 10 and the proof of Proposition 5.1. The correction simplifies the overall argument. This is the version accepted for publication at Geometry & Topology