English

Obstructing finite surgery

Geometric Topology 2013-02-26 v1

Abstract

For a fixed p, there are only finitely many elliptic 3-manifolds given by p/q-surgery on a knot in S^3. We prove this result by using the Heegaard Floer correction terms (d-invariants) to obstruct elliptic manifolds from arising as knot surgery.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.6130,
  title  = {Obstructing finite surgery},
  author = {Margaret I. Doig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6130},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

16 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-21T23:32:11.290Z