Lidman–Vafaee satellite L-space knot necessity conjecture

Let PP be a pattern in the solid torus, let KK be a knot, let UU denote the unknot, and write P(K)P(K) and P(U)P(U) for the corresponding satellite knots. An L-space knot is a knot admitting a positive surgery yielding an L-space. Lidman–Vafaee's conjecture. If P(K)P(K) is an L-space knot, then both P(U)P(U) and KK are L-space knots. This gives a necessary condition for a satellite knot to be an L-space knot; the source presents it as a conjecture attributed to the author, Lidman, and Vafaee, and its status is not resolved here.

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Jennifer Hom, “Satellite knots and L-space surgeries”, arXiv:1601.05696 (2016).

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