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Taut foliations in knot complements

Geometric Topology 2016-01-20 v2

Abstract

We show that for any nontrivial knot in S3S^3, there is an open interval containing zero such that a Dehn surgery on any slope in this interval yields a 3-manifold with taut foliations. This generalizes a theorem of Gabai on zero frame surgery.

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@article{arxiv.1211.3066,
  title  = {Taut foliations in knot complements},
  author = {Tao Li and Rachel Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3066},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes; applications were added in the introduction section

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