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Montesinos knots, Hopf plumbings, and L-space surgeries

Geometric Topology 2014-05-01 v1

Abstract

Using Hirasawa-Murasugi's classification of fibered Montesinos knots we classify the L-space Montesinos knots, providing further evidence towards a conjecture of Lidman-Moore that L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres. In the process, we classify the fibered Montesinos knots whose open books support the tight contact structure on S3S^3. We also construct L-space knots with arbitrarily large tunnel number and discuss the question of whether L-space knots admit essential tangle decompositions in the context of satellite operations and tunnel number.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7585,
  title  = {Montesinos knots, Hopf plumbings, and L-space surgeries},
  author = {Kenneth L. Baker and Allison H. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7585},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 8 figures