English

Surgery on links with unknotted components and three-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2011-01-25 v1

Abstract

It is shown that any closed three-manifold M obtained by integral surgery on a knot in the three-sphere can always be constructed from integral surgeries on a 3-component link L with each component being an unknot in the three-sphere. It is also interesting to notice that infinitely many different integral surgeries on the same link L could give the same three-manifold M.

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@article{arxiv.0801.3309,
  title  = {Surgery on links with unknotted components and three-manifolds},
  author = {Yu Guo and Li Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3309},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures

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