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A knot in the 3-sphere is called an L-space knot if it admits a nontrivial Dehn surgery yielding an L-space, i.e. a rational homology 3-sphere with the smallest possible Heegaard Floer homology. Given a knot K, take an unknotted circle c…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Kimihiko Motegi

Finite-order invariants of knots in arbitrary 3-manifolds (including non-orientable ones) are constructed and studied by methods of the topology of discriminant sets. Obstructions to the integrability of admissible weight systems to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Victor A. Vassiliev

In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot type to admit non-loose Legendrian and transverse representatives in some overtwisted contact structure, classify all non-loose rational unknots in lens spaces, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Rima Chatterjee , John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min , Anubhav Mukherjee

We give sufficient conditions for a satellite knot to admit an L-space surgery, and use this result to give new infinite families of patterns which produce satellite L-space knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Jennifer Hom

We present two examples of strongly invertible L-space knots whose surgeries are never the double branched cover of a Khovanov thin link in the 3-sphere. Consequently, these knots provide counterexamples to a conjectural characterization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Kenneth L. Baker , Marc Kegel , Duncan McCoy

Every $L$-space knot is fibered and strongly quasi-positive, but this does not hold for $L$-space links. In this paper, we use the so called H-function, which is a concordance link invariant, to introduce a subfamily of fibered strongly…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Alberto Cavallo , Beibei Liu

We exhibit an infinite family of knots in the Poincare homology sphere with tunnel number 2 that have a lens space surgery. Notably, these knots are not doubly primitive and provide counterexamples to a few conjectures. In the appendix, it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Kenneth L. Baker , Neil R. Hoffman

We show there exist infinitely many knots of every fixed genus $g\geq 2$ which do not admit surgery to an L-space, despite resembling algebraic knots and L-space knots in general: they are algebraically concordant to the torus knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Filip Misev , Gilberto Spano

Let $D$ be a diagram of an alternating knot with unknotting number one. The branched double cover of $S^3$ branched over $D$ is an L-space obtained by half integral surgery on a knot $K_D$. We denote the set of all such knots $K_D$ by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Andrew Donald , Duncan McCoy , Faramarz Vafaee

We construct an infinite collection of knots with the property that any knot in this family has $n$-string essential tangle decompositions for arbitrarily high $n$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-19 João Miguel Nogueira

Much work has been done recently towards trying to understand the topological significance of being an L-space. Building on work of Rasmussen and Rasmussen, we give a topological characterisation of Floer simple manifolds such that all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Thomas J. Gillespie

In this paper we prove that if $M_K$ is the complement of a non-fibered twist knot $K$ in $\mathbb S^3$, then $M_K$ is not commensurable to a fibered knot complement in a $\mathbb Z/ 2 \mathbb Z$-homology sphere. To prove this result we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jim Hoste , Patrick D. Shanahan

Conjecturally, a knot in the 3-sphere has only finitely many non-integer non-characterizing slopes. We verify this conjecture for all knots with knot Floer homology satisfying certain simplicity conditions. The class of knots satisfying our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Duncan McCoy

We classify Legendrian rational unknots with tight complements in the lens spaces L(p,1) up to coarse equivalence. As an example of the general case, this classification is also worked out for L(5,2). The knots are described explicitly in a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Hansjörg Geiges , Sinem Onaran

We construct infinitely many smoothly slice knots having topological slice discs that are non-approximable by smooth slice discs.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Min Hoon Kim , Mark Powell

Using Hirasawa-Murasugi's classification of fibered Montesinos knots we classify the L-space Montesinos knots, providing further evidence towards a conjecture of Lidman-Moore that L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres. In the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Kenneth L. Baker , Allison H. Moore

We show that there exist infinitely many pairs of distinct knots in the 3-sphere such that each pair can yield homeomorphic lens spaces by the same Dehn surgery. Moreover, each knot of the pair can be chosen to be a torus knot, a satellite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Toshio Saito , Masakazu Teragaito

A rational homology sphere whose Heegaard Floer homology is the same as that of a lens space is called an L-space. We classify pretzel knots with any number of tangles which admit L-space surgeries. This rests on Gabai's classification of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Tye Lidman , Allison H. Moore

We take advantage of the correspondence between fibered links, open book decompositions and contact structures on a closed connected 3-dimensional manifold to determine a mixed link diagram presentation for a particular fibered link $L$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Enrico Manfredi , Alessio Savini

This paper gives infinitely many examples of non L-space irreducible integer homology 3-spheres whose fundamental groups do not have nontrivial $\widetilde{PSL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ representations.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Xinghua Gao