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 pretzel knots. This was previously only known for 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