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We use an algorithm by Ozsvath and Szabo to find closed formulae for the ranks of the hat version of the Heegaard Floer homology groups for non-zero Dehn surgeries on knots in the 3-sphere. As applications we provide new bounds on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Stanislav Jabuka

We prove for the first time that knot Floer homology and Khovanov homology can detect non-fibered knots, and that HOMFLY homology detects infinitely many such knots; these theories were previously known to detect a mere six knots, all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-29 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We show that if a surgery on a knot in a product sutured manifold yields the same product sutured manifold, then this knot is a 0-- or 1--crossing knot. The proof uses techniques from sutured manifold theory.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Yi Ni

An irreducible 3--manifold with torus boundary either is a Seifert fibered space or admits at most three lens space fillings according to the Cyclic Surgery Theorem. We examine the sharpness of this theorem by classifying the non-hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-26 Kenneth L. Baker , Brandy Guntel Doleshal , Neil Hoffman

We provide new examples of 3-manifolds with weight one fundamental group and the same integral homology as the lens space $L(2k,1)$ which are not surgery on any knot in the three-sphere. Our argument uses Furuta's 10/8-theorem, and is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Beibei Liu , Lisa Piccirillo

The Cabling Conjecture of Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na and Short holds that only cable knots admit Dehn surgery to a manifold containing an essential sphere. We approach this conjecture for thin knots using Heegaard Floer homology, primarily via…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Robert DeYeso

This paper proves a theorem about Dehn surgery using a new theorem about PSL(2, C) character varieties. Confirming a conjecture of Boyer and Zhang, this paper shows that a small hyperbolic knot in a homotopy sphere having a non-trivial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Nathan M. Dunfield

We study which closed, connected, orientable three-manifolds $X$ containing a Klein bottle arise as integral Dehn surgery along a knot in $S^3$. Such $X$ are presentable as a gluing of the twisted $I$-bundle over the Klein bottle to a knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Robert DeYeso

Conjecturally, the only knots in $S^3$ with non-integer surgeries producing Seifert fibered spaces are torus knots and cables of torus knots. In this paper, we make progress on the associated realization problem. Let $Y$ be a small Seifert…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Ahmad Issa , Duncan McCoy

In this paper, we prove that a compact K\"ahler manifold $X$ with the nef anti-canonical bundle $-K_{X}$ admits a locally trivial fibration $\phi \colon X \to Y$, where the fiber $F$ is a rationally connected manifold and the base $Y$ is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Shin-ichi Matsumura , Juanyong Wang , Xiaojun Wu , Qimin Zhang

Suppose that $W$ and $W'$ are smooth, compact, and oriented $4$-manifolds that are either diffeomorphic to $S^1$ times the exterior $E_Y(K)$ of a fibered knot $K$ in a closed, connected, orientable $3$-manifold $Y$, or are diffeomorphic to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Nicholas Meyer

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 show that two Dehn surgeries on a knot $K$ never yield manifolds that are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds if $V_K''(1)\neq 0$ or $V_K'''(1)\neq 0$. As an application, we verify the cosmetic surgery conjecture for all knots with no…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Zhongtao Wu

We define a "reduced" version of the knot Floer complex $CFK^-(K)$, and show that it behaves well under connected sums and retains enough information to compute Heegaard Floer $d$-invariants of manifolds arising as surgeries on the knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-04 David Krcatovich

We show that the distance of a link $K$ with respect to a bridge surface of any genus determines a lower bound on the genus of essential surfaces and Heegaard surfaces in the manifolds that result from non-trivial Dehn surgeries on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ryan Blair , Marion Campisi , Jesse Johnson , Scott A. Taylor , Maggy Tomova

We apply the conormal construction to a hyperbolic knot $K \subset S^3$, and study the sutured contact manifold $(V, \xi)$ obtained by taking the complement of a standard neighbourhood of the unit conormal $\La_K \subset (ST^*S^3,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Côme Dattin

By considering non-orientable surfaces in the surgered manifolds, we show that the 10/3- and -10/3-Dehn surgeries on the 2-bridge knot $9_{27} = S(49,19)$ are not cosmetic, i.e., they give mutually non-homeomorphic manifolds. The knot is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Kazuhiro Ichihara

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

We introduce a new technique for studying classical knots with the methods of virtual knot theory. Let $K$ be a knot and $J$ a knot in the complement of $K$ with $\text{lk}(J,K)=0$. Suppose there is covering space $\pi_J: \Sigma \times…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Micah W. Chrisman , Vassily O. Manturov

Ballinger et al. have determined the list of all prism manifolds that are possibly realizable by Dehn surgeries on knots in $S^3$. In this paper, we explicitly find braid words of primitive/Seifert-fibered knots on which surface slope…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Zhengyuan Shang