Gordon's conjecture on toroidal and Seifert Dehn fillings
Let be a hyperbolic knot manifold, meaning a compact, connected, orientable -manifold with torus boundary whose interior admits a complete finite-volume hyperbolic structure. Let and be slopes on , and write and for the corresponding Dehn fillings; let denote the distance between the slopes. Gordon's conjecture. Suppose that is a toroidal manifold and is a Seifert manifold. If
then is the figure-eight knot exterior. The conjecture concerns the exceptional-filling distance for hyperbolic knot manifolds; the supplied text gives no resolution status, so it is recorded as open.
References
Primary source
Steven Boyer, Cameron McA. Gordon and Xingru Zhang, “Dehn fillings of knot manifolds containing essential twice-punctured tori”, arXiv:2004.04219 (2021).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1109.5151, arXiv:math/0611669.
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