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On lens space surgeries from the Poincar\'e homology sphere

Geometric Topology 2023-08-31 v1

Abstract

Building on Greene's changemaker lattices, we develop a lattice embedding obstruction to realizing an L-space bounding a definite 4-manifold as integer surgery on a knot in the Poincar\'e homology sphere. As the motivating application, we determine which lens spaces are realized by p/qp/q-surgery on a knot KK when p/q>2g(K)1p/q > 2g(K) -1. Specifically, we use the lattice embedding obstruction to show that if K(p)K(p) is a lens space and p2g(K)p \geq 2g(K), then there exists an equivalent surgery on a Tange knot with the same knot Floer homology groups; additionally, using input from Baker, Hedden, and Ni, we identify the only two knots in the Poincar\'e homology sphere that admit half-integer lens space surgeries. Thus, together with the Finite/Cyclic Surgery Theorem of Boyer and Zhang, we obtain the corollary that lens space surgeries on hyperbolic knots in the Poincar\'e homology sphere are integral.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15569,
  title  = {On lens space surgeries from the Poincar\'e homology sphere},
  author = {Jacob Caudell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15569},
  year   = {2023}
}

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