Dehn surgery functions are never injective
Geometric Topology
2025-08-20 v1
Abstract
We prove that, for each fixed rational number , there exists a pair of distinct knots whose -surgeries are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic. This confirms a 1978 conjecture of Gordon.
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@article{arxiv.2508.13369,
title = {Dehn surgery functions are never injective},
author = {Kyle Hayden and Lisa Piccirillo and Laura Wakelin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.13369},
year = {2025}
}
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25 pages, 20 figures