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A note on cabled slice knots and reducible surgeries

Geometric Topology 2017-08-08 v1

Abstract

We consider the question of when a slice knot admits a reducible Dehn surgery. By analyzing the correction terms associated to such a surgery, we show that slice knots cannot admit surgeries with more than two summands. We also give a necessary Heegaard Floer theoretic condition for a positive cable of a knot to be slice.

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@article{arxiv.1507.04562,
  title  = {A note on cabled slice knots and reducible surgeries},
  author = {Jeffrey Meier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04562},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages

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