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The prism manifold realization problem

Geometric Topology 2020-04-29 v1

Abstract

The spherical manifold realization problem asks which spherical three-manifolds arise from surgeries on knots in S3S^3. In recent years, the realization problem for C, T, O, and I-type spherical manifolds has been solved, leaving the D-type manifolds (also known as the prism manifolds) as the only remaining case. Every prism manifold can be parametrized as P(p,q)P(p,q), for a pair of relatively prime integers p>1p>1 and qq. We determine a complete list of prism manifolds P(p,q)P(p, q) that can be realized by positive integral surgeries on knots in S3S^3 when q<0q<0. The methodology undertaken to obtain the classification is similar to that of Greene for lens spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04921,
  title  = {The prism manifold realization problem},
  author = {William Ballinger and Chloe Ching-Yun Hsu and Wyatt Mackey and Yi Ni and Tynan Ochse and Faramarz Vafaee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04921},
  year   = {2020}
}

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55 pages, 4 figures, and 5 tables

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