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Lens surgeries along the $n$-twisted Whitehead link

Geometric Topology 2012-05-11 v1

Abstract

We determine lens surgeries (i.e.\ Dehn surgery yielding a lens space) along the nn-twisted Whitehead link. To do so, we first give necessary conditions to yield a lens space from the Alexander polynomial of the link as: (1) n=1n=1 (i.e. the Whitehead link), and (2) one of surgery coefficients is 1, 2 or 3. Our interests are not only lens surgery itself but also how to apply the Alexander polynomial for this kind of problems.

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@article{arxiv.1205.2311,
  title  = {Lens surgeries along the $n$-twisted Whitehead link},
  author = {Teruhisa Kadokami and Noriko Maruyama and Masafumi Shimozawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2311},
  year   = {2012}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures