Satellite L-space knot converse conjecture

Let PP be a pattern in the solid torus and let KK be a knot, with satellite knot P(K)P(K). An L-space knot is a knot admitting a positive Dehn surgery yielding an L-space. Satellite L-space knot conjecture. If P(K)P(K) is an L-space knot, then KK and PP are L-space knots. The paper also conjectures a converse when the pattern is embedded “nicely” in the solid torus, for example as a strongly quasipositive braid closure, and is sufficiently positively twisted, but does not make these conditions precise. The claim is posed as a generalization of the preceding construction of L-space knots by Berge–Gabai satellite operations.

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Jennifer Hom, Tye Lidman and Faramarz Vafaee, “Berge-Gabai knots and L-space satellite operations”, arXiv:1406.1597 (2014).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1405.5562.

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