English

Zero-surgery characterizes infinitely many knots

Geometric Topology 2025-02-11 v2

Abstract

We prove that 0 is a characterizing slope for infinitely many knots, namely the genus-1 knots whose knot Floer homology is 2-dimensional in the top Alexander grading, which we classified in recent work and which include all (3,3,2n+1)(-3,3,2n+1) pretzel knots. This was previously only known for 525_2 and its mirror, as a corollary of that classification, and for the unknot, trefoils, and the figure eight by work of Gabai from 1987.

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@article{arxiv.2211.04280,
  title  = {Zero-surgery characterizes infinitely many knots},
  author = {John A. Baldwin and Steven Sivek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04280},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes, accepted version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T05:25:47.957Z