Lens space surgeries and a conjecture of Goda and Teragaito
Geometric Topology
2014-11-11 v3
Abstract
Using work of Ozsvath and Szabo, we show that if a nontrivial knot in S^3 admits a lens space surgery with slope p, then p <= 4g+3, where g is the genus of the knot. This is a close approximation to a bound conjectured by Goda and Teragaito.
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@article{arxiv.math/0405114,
title = {Lens space surgeries and a conjecture of Goda and Teragaito},
author = {Jacob Rasmussen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0405114},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol8/paper27.abs.html Version 3: minor correction to reference [1]