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This paper employs knot invariants and results from hyperbolic geometry to develop a practical procedure for checking the cosmetic surgery conjecture on any given one-cusped manifold. This procedure has been used to establish the following…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-27 David Futer , Jessica S. Purcell , Saul Schleimer

We study chirally cosmetic surgeries, that is, a pair of Dehn surgeries on a knot producing homeomorphic 3-manifolds with opposite orientations. Several constraints on knots and surgery slopes to admit such surgeries are given. Our main…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Tetsuya Ito , Toshio Saito

We show an infinite family of hyperbolic knots that have an exceptional surgery producing a graph manifold containing five disjoint, and non parallel incompressible tori.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Mario Eudave-Muñoz , Masakazu Teragaito

A pair of surgeries on a knot is chirally cosmetic if they result in homeomorphic manifolds with opposite orientations. We find new obstructions to the existence of such surgeries coming from Heegaard Floer homology; in particular, we make…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Konstantinos Varvarezos

We discuss various constraints for knots in $S^{3}$ to admit chirally cosmetic surgeries, derived from invariants of 3-manifolds, such as, the quantum $SO(3)$-invariant, the rank of the Heegaard Floer homology, and finite type invariants.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Tetsuya Ito , Toshio Saito

We show that if there exists a knot in $S^3$ that admits purely cosmetic surgeries, then there exists a hyperbolic one with this property.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Qiuyu Ren

A pair of Dehn surgeries on a knot is called chirally cosmetic if they yield orientation-reversingly homeomorphic 3-manifolds. In this paper, we consider exceptional or half-integral chirally cosmetic surgeries, and obtain several…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Toshio Saito

A pair of surgeries on a knot is chirally cosmetic if they result in homeomorphic manifolds with opposite orientations. Using recent methods of Ichihara, Ito, and Saito, we show that, except for the (2,5) and (2,7)-torus knots, the genus 2…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Konstantinos Varvarezos

A pair of surgeries on a knot is called purely cosmetic if the pair of resulting 3-manifolds are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Using recent work of Hanselman, we show that (nontrivial) knots which arise as the closure of a 3-stranded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Konstantinos Varvarezos

We prove that for any integer $n$ there exist infinitely many different knots in $S^3$ such that $n$-surgery on those knots yields the same 3-manifold. In particular, when $|n|=1$ homology spheres arise from these surgeries. This answers…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Tetsuya Abe , In Dae Jong , John Luecke , John Osoinach

We present various examples of cosmetic bandings on knots and links, that is, bandings on knots and links leaving their types unchanged. As a byproduct, we give a hyperbolic knot which admits exotic chirally cosmetic surgeries yielding…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Kazuhiro Ichihara , In Dae Jong , Hidetoshi Masai

This paper concerns the truly or purely cosmetic surgery conjecture. We give a survey on exceptional surgeries and cosmetic surgeries. We prove that the slope of an exceptional truly cosmetic surgery on a hyperbolic knot in $S^3$ must be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Huygens C. Ravelomanana

Myers shows that every compact, connected, orientable $3$--manifold with no $2$--sphere boundary components contains a hyperbolic knot. We use work of Ikeda with an observation of Adams-Reid to show that every $3$--manifold subject to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Kenneth L. Baker , Neil R. Hoffman

Two Dehn surgeries on a knot are called purely cosmetic if their surgered manifolds are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Gordon conjectured that non-trivial knots in $S^3$ do not admit purely cosmetic surgeries. In this article, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Ran Tao

This paper concerns the Dehn surgery construction, especially those Dehn surgeries leaving the manifold unchanged. In particular, we describe an oriented 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold X with a pair of slopes r_1, r_2 such that the Dehn…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Steven A. Bleiler , Craig D. Hodgson , Jeffrey R. Weeks

This paper computes the Jones polynomial and the invariants obstructing cosmetic surgery which are derived from it for two infinite families of knots, proving they satisfy the Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture. Both the method of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-13 F. M. Brady

The cosmetic surgery conjecture is a longstanding conjecture in 3-manifold theory. We present a theorem about exceptional cosmetic surgery for homology spheres. Along the way we prove that if the surgery is not a small seifert…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Huygens C. Ravelomanana

We use Dehn surgery methods to construct infinite families of hyperbolic knots in the 3-sphere satisfying a weak form of the Turaev--Viro invariants volume conjecture. The results have applications to a conjecture of Andersen, Masbaum, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Efstratia Kalfagianni , Joseph M. Melby

We demonstrate that the contact cosmetic surgery conjecture holds true for all non-trivial Legendrian knots, with the possible exception of Lagrangian slice knots. We also discuss the contact cosmetic surgeries on Legendrian unknots and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-07 John B. Etnyre , Tanushree Shah

Two Dehn surgeries on a knot are called {\it purely cosmetic}, if they yield manifolds that are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Suppose there exist purely cosmetic surgeries on a knot in $S^3$, we show that the two surgery slopes must…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Yi Ni , Zhongtao Wu
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