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A Dehn surgery on a knot $K$ in $S^3$ is exceptional if it produces a reducible, toroidal or Seifert fibred manifold. It is known that a large arborescent knot admits no such surgery unless it is a type II arborescent knot. The main theorem…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ying-Qing Wu

If a hyperbolic 3-manifold M admits a reducible and a finite Dehn filling, the distance between the filling slopes is known to be 1. This has been proved recently by Boyer, Gordon and Zhang. The first example of a manifold with two such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-14 Sungmo Kang

For a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with a torus boundary component,all but finitely many Dehn fillings yield hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In this paper, we will focus on the situation where $M$ has two exceptional Dehn fillings: an annular filling…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sangyop Lee , Masakazu Teragaito

We summarize and expand known connections between the study of Dehn surgery on links and the study of trisections of closed, smooth 4-manifolds. In addition, we describe how the potential counterexamples to the Generalized Property R…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Jeffrey Meier , Alexander Zupan

Surgery on a knot in $S^3$ is said to be an alternating surgery if it yields the double branched cover of an alternating link. The main theoretical contribution is to show that the set of alternating surgery slopes is algorithmically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Kenneth L. Baker , Marc Kegel , Duncan McCoy

We study knots in $S^3$ with infinitely many $SU(2)$-cyclic surgeries, which are Dehn surgeries such that every representation of the resulting fundamental group into $SU(2)$ has cyclic image. We show that for every such nontrivial knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Steven Sivek , Raphael Zentner

It was conjectured by Edoukou in 2008 that a non-degenerate Hermitian threefold in $\mathbb{P}^4 (\mathbb{F}_{q^2})$ has at most $d(q^5+q^2) + q^3 + 1$ points in common with a threefold of degree $d$ defined over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$. He…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Mrinmoy Datta , Subrata Manna

Hyperbolic Dehn surgery and the bending procedure provide two ways which can be used to describe hyperbolic deformations of a complete hyperbolic structure on a 3-manifold. Moreover, one can obtain examples of non-Haken manifolds without…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Georgios Kydonakis

We prove that the maximum number of edges in a 3-uniform linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices containing no 2-regular subhypergraph is $n^{1+o(1)}$. This resolves a conjecture of Dellamonica, Haxell, Luczak, Mubayi, Nagle, Person, R\"odl,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov , István Tomon

We derive bounds on the length of the meridian and the cusp volume of hyperbolic knots in terms of the topology of essential surfaces spanned by the knot. We provide an algorithmically checkable criterion that guarantees that the meridian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Stephan D. Burton , Efstratia Kalfagianni

It is known that any contact 3-manifold can be obtained by rational contact Dehn surgery along a Legendrian link L in the standard tight contact 3-sphere. We define and study various versions of contact surgery numbers, the minimal number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 John Etnyre , Marc Kegel , Sinem Onaran

We describe five ideal triangulations of the 3-cusped hyperbolic `magic manifold' that are each compatible with well-established techniques for triangulating Dehn fillings. Using these techniques, we construct low-complexity triangulations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Em K. Thompson

Let a 2 to 1 directed hypergraph be a 3-uniform hypergraph where every edge has two tail vertices and one head vertex. For any such directed hypergraph F let the nth extremal number of F be the maximum number of edges that any directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Alex Cameron

In this paper, we define a new algebro-geometric invariant of 3-manifolds resulting from the Dehn surgery along a hyperbolic knot complement in S^3. We establish a Casson type invariant for these 3-manifolds. In the last section, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Weiping Li , Qingxue Wang

Any two geometric ideal triangulations of a cusped complete hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ are related by a sequence of Pachner moves through topological triangulations. We give a bound on the length of this sequence in terms of the total…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Tejas Kalelkar , Sriram Raghunath

We will classify all exceptional Dehn surgeries on 2-bridge knots according to whether they produce reducible, toroidal, or small Seifert fibered manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Brittenham , Ying-Qing Wu

We give an upper bound on the distance between a degeneracy slope for a very full essential lamination and a boundary slope of an essential surface embedded in a compact, orientable, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with incompressible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Kazuhiro Ichihara

We show that the cusp volume of a hyperbolic alternating knot can be bounded above and below in terms of the twist number of an alternating diagram of the knot. This leads to diagrammatic estimates on lengths of slopes, and has some…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Marc Lackenby , Jessica S. Purcell

A combinatorial condition is obtained for when immersed or embedded incompressible surfaces in compact 3-manifolds with tori boundary components remain incompressible after Dehn surgery. A combinatorial characterisation of hierarchies is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Iain R. Aitchison , J. Hyam Rubinstein

A 3-manifold is Haken if it contains a topologically essential surface. The Virtual Haken Conjecture says that every irreducible 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover which is Haken. Here, we discuss two interrelated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Nathan M Dunfield , William P Thurston