Finiteness conjecture for dihedral knot surgeries

Let mm and nn be positive integers, and consider the Seifert-fibered dihedral manifolds

(1;12,12,mn).\left(-1; \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{m}{n}\right).

A knot surgery is a Dehn surgery on a knot in the 33-sphere, and the family is considered with fixed finite first homology order H1(Y)|H_1(Y)|. Finiteness conjecture for dihedral knot surgeries. Each family of dihedral manifolds with a fixed H1(Y)|H_1(Y)| includes finitely many knot surgeries. In particular, if n>2m+1n>2m+1, then

(1;12,12,mn)\left(-1; \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{m}{n}\right)

is never a knot surgery. The conjecture is motivated by the observation that all known examples of these manifolds that are knot surgeries satisfy n2m+1n\leq 2m+1, with the cases n=2m±1n=2m\pm1 realized by torus knots. Its general status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Margaret I. Doig, “Finite knot surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology”, arXiv:1201.4187 (2014).

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