Gordon's conjecture on toroidal and Seifert Dehn fillings

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Let MM be a hyperbolic knot manifold, meaning a compact, connected, orientable 33-manifold with torus boundary whose interior admits a complete finite-volume hyperbolic structure. Let β\beta and β\beta be slopes on ∂M\partial M, and write M(α)M(\alpha) and M(β)M(\beta) for the corresponding Dehn fillings; let Δ(α,β)\Delta(\alpha,\beta) denote the distance between the slopes. Gordon's conjecture. Suppose that M(β)M(\beta) is a toroidal manifold and M(α)M(\alpha) is a Seifert manifold. If

Δ(α,β)>5,\Delta(\alpha,\beta)>5,

then MM 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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