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Cable knots do not admit cosmetic surgeries

Geometric Topology 2018-04-09 v1

Abstract

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 S3S^3 do not admit purely cosmetic surgeries. In this article, we confirm this conjecture for cable knots.

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@article{arxiv.1804.02210,
  title  = {Cable knots do not admit cosmetic surgeries},
  author = {Ran Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02210},
  year   = {2018}
}

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