Lidman–Moore conjecture on essential Conway spheres in L-space knots

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3. An essential Conway sphere is an embedded sphere intersecting KK transversally in four points such that the resulting four-punctured sphere is incompressible and boundary-incompressible in the knot exterior. Lidman–Moore conjecture. An L-space knot has no essential Conway sphere. This is a geometric decomposition conjecture for L-space knots; the paper classifies L-space Montesinos knots and finds no counterexamples, but the general claim remains open.

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Kenneth L. Baker and Allison H. Moore, “Montesinos knots, Hopf plumbings, and L-space surgeries”, arXiv:1404.7585 (2014).

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