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We construct hyperbolic L-space knots that are not concordant to any linear combination of algebraic knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Maciej Borodzik , Masakazu Teragaito

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 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

A knot is called an L-space knot if it admits a positive Dehn surgery yielding an L-space. In the SnapPy census, there are exactly 9 asymmetric L-space knots. Among them, the knot t12533 is the only known example of braid index 4. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Kenneth L. Baker , Masakazu Teragaito

A knot in the 3-sphere is called an L--space knot if it admits a nontrivial Dehn surgery yielding an L--space. Like torus knots and Berge knots, many L--space knots admit also a Seifert fibered surgery. We give a concrete example of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Kimihiko Motegi , Kazushige Tohki

For an L-space knot, the formal semigroup is defined from its Alexander polynomial. It is not necessarily a semigroup. That is, it may not be closed under addition. There exists an infinite family of hyperbolic L-space knots whose formal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Masakazu Teragaito

Let K be a knot in the 3--sphere. An r-surgery on K is left-orderable if the resulting 3--manifold K(r) of the surgery has left-orderable fundamental group, and an r-surgery on K is called an L-space surgery if K(r) is an L-space. A…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Kimihiko Motegi , Masakazu Teragaito

For a knot in the 3-sphere, the Upsilon invariant is a piecewise linear function defined on the interval [0,2]. For an L-space knot, the Upsilon invariant is determined only by the Alexander polynomial of the knot. We exhibit infinitely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Masakazu Teragaito

We characterize the (1, 1) knots in the three-sphere and lens spaces that admit non-trivial L-space surgeries. As a corollary, 1-bridge braids in these manifolds admit non- trivial L-space surgeries. We also recover a characterization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Joshua Evan Greene , Sam Lewallen , Faramarz Vafaee

We show that quasi-alternating links arise naturally when considering surgery on a strongly invertible L-space knot (that is, a knot that yields an L-space for some Dehn surgery). In particular, we show that for many known classes of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-05 Liam Watson

In this paper we discuss a general strategy to detect the absence of weakly symplectic fillings of $L$-spaces. We start from a generic $L$-space knot and consider (positive) Dehn surgeries on it. We compute, using arithmetic data depending…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Isacco Nonino

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

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

A construction of a spatial graph from a strongly invertible knot was developed by the second author, and a necessary and sufficient condition for the given spatial graph to be hyperbolic was provided as well. The condition is improved in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-05 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Akira Ushijima

An $L$-space knot is a knot that admits a positive Dehn surgery yielding an $L$-space. Many known hyperbolic $L$-space knots are braid positive, meaning they can be represented as the closure of a positive braid. Recently, Baker and Kegel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Keisuke Himeno

In this note, we show that if there is a knot in $S^3$ having $\mathbb{Z}_m$ torsion in its Khovanov homology, then there are infinitely many hyperbolic knots and infinitely many prime satellite knots having $\mathbb{Z}_m$ torsion in their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Micah Chrisman , Sujoy Mukherjee

The Cabling Conjecture states that surgery on hyperbolic knots in $S^3$ never produces reducible manifolds. In contrast, there do exist hyperbolic knots in some lens spaces with non-prime surgeries. Baker constructed a family of such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Fyodor Gainullin

Baker showed that 10 of the 12 classes of Berge knots are obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5-chain link. In this article we enumerate all hyperbolic knots in S^3 obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5 chain link that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Benjamin Audoux , Ana G. Lecuona , Fionntan Roukema

An $L$-space link is a link in $S^3$ on which all large surgeries are $L$-spaces. In this paper, we initiate a general study of the definitions, properties, and examples of $L$-space links. In particular, we find many hyperbolic $L$-space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Yajing Liu

We describe necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot in an L-space to have an L-space homology sphere surgery. We use these conditions to reformulate a conjecture of Berge about which knots in S^3 admit lens space surgeries.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-15 Jacob Rasmussen
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