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SU(2)-Cyclic Surgeries on Knots

Geometric Topology 2013-07-03 v2

Abstract

A surgery on a knot in 3-sphere is called SU(2)-cyclic if it gives a manifold whose fundamental group has no non-cyclic SU(2) representations. Using holonomy perturbations on the Chern-Simons functional, we prove that the distance of two SU(2)-cyclic surgery coefficients is bounded by the sum of the absolute values of their numerators. This is an analog of Culler-Gordon-Luecke-Shalen's cyclic surgery theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0070,
  title  = {SU(2)-Cyclic Surgeries on Knots},
  author = {Jianfeng Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0070},
  year   = {2013}
}
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