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L-space surgeries on satellites by algebraic links

Geometric Topology 2020-07-29 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Given an nn-component link LL in any 3-manifold MM, the space L(Q{})n\mathcal{L} \subset (\mathbb{Q}\cup \mkern-1.5mu\{\infty\})^n of rational surgery slopes yielding L-spaces is already fully characterized (in joint work by the author) when n ⁣= ⁣1n\!=\!1 and L\mathcal{L} is nontrivial. For n> ⁣1n\mkern-2mu>\mkern-3mu1, however, there are no previous results for L\mathcal{L} as a rational subspace, and only limited results for integer surgeries LZn\mathcal{L}\cap\mathbb{Z}^n on S3S^3\mkern-2mu. Herein, we provide the first nontrivial explicit descriptions of L\mathcal{L} for rational surgeries on multi-component links. Generalizing Hedden's and Hom's L-space result for cables, we compute both L\mathcal{L}, and its topology, for all satellites by torus-links in S3S^3\mkern-2mu. For fractal-boundaried L\mathcal{L} resulting from satellites by algebraic links or iterated torus links, we develop arbitrarily precise approximation tools. We also extend the provisional validity of the L-space conjecture for rational surgeries on a knot KS3K \subset S^3 to rational surgeries on such satellite-links of KK. These results exploit the author's generalized Jankins-Neumann formula for graph manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1703.06874,
  title  = {L-space surgeries on satellites by algebraic links},
  author = {Sarah Dean Rasmussen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06874},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

51 pages, 1 figure, rewrote introduction and added theorem pointing out topological observations

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