The Seifert surgery conjecture for knots in the three-sphere

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3, let p/qQp/q\in\mathbb{Q} be a surgery slope with q2q\geq 2, and write Sp/q3(K)S_{p/q}^3(K) for the manifold obtained by p/qp/q-surgery on KK. A Seifert fibred surgery is a surgery yielding a Seifert fibred space. Seifert surgery conjecture. If Sp/q3(K)S_{p/q}^3(K) is a Seifert fibred space and q2q\geq 2, then KK is either a torus knot or a cable of a torus knot. This conjecture would identify the knots admitting non-integer Seifert fibred surgeries and underlies the proposed classification of non-integer characterizing slopes for torus knots; its resolution is not supplied here.

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Primary source

Duncan McCoy, “Non-integer characterizing slopes for torus knots”, arXiv:1610.03283 (2016).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1207.0154.

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