Generalized cabling conjecture for connected sums of lens spaces

Let KK be a knot in a 3-manifold YY admitting a Seifert fibering over S2S^2 with n3n\geq 3 exceptional fibers.

Generalized cabling conjecture. If Dehn surgery on KK yields a connected sum of more than n1n-1 lens spaces, then there is a Seifert fibering of YY where KK is a regular fiber.

This conjecture seeks to characterize knots in Seifert fibered 3-manifolds that admit surgeries to sufficiently large connected sums of lens spaces. It is motivated by known results for knots in S3S^3, where torus knots and their cables account for all such surgeries, and by examples of hyperbolic knots in lens spaces.

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Jacob Caudell, “Three lens space summands from the Poincaré homology sphere”, arXiv:2101.01256 (2021).

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