The Cabling Conjecture for hyperbolic knots in lens spaces

Let KK be a knot in a lens space, and let surgery on KK produce a non-prime 33-manifold YY. A knot is hyperbolic if its exterior admits a complete finite-volume hyperbolic structure.

Baker's conjecture. If KK is hyperbolic, then

Y=L(r,1)#L(s,1).Y=L(r,1)\mathbin{\#}L(s,1).

Otherwise, either KK is a torus knot, a Klein bottle knot, or a cabled knot and the surgery is along the boundary slope of an essential annulus in the exterior of KK, or KK is contained in a ball.

This conjecture generalizes the Cabling Conjecture from S3S^3 to lens spaces by proposing that Baker's family accounts for all hyperbolic knots with non-prime surgeries. The statement was disproved by a counterexample constructed in the paper.

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Primary source

Fyodor Gainullin, “Reducible surgery in lens spaces and seiferters”, arXiv:1505.04428 (2017).

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