English

On the set of L-space surgeries for links

Geometric Topology 2018-07-03 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

It it known that the set of L-space surgeries on a nontrivial L-space knot is always bounded from below. However, already for two-component torus links the set of L-space surgeries might be unbounded from below. For algebraic two-component links we provide three complete characterizations for the boundedness from below: one in terms of the hh-function, one in terms of the Alexander polynomial, and one in terms of the embedded resolution graph. They show that the set of L-space surgeries is bounded from below for most algebraic links. In fact, the used property of the hh-function is a sufficient condition for non-algebraic L-space links as well.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01170,
  title  = {On the set of L-space surgeries for links},
  author = {Eugene Gorsky and András Némethi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01170},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

28 pages, 13 figures; v2: Major revision, we prove a complete characterization of algebraic links with bounded below sets of L-space surgeries