Gordon's conjecture on Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic knots
Let be a hyperbolic knot, and let denote the result of -Dehn surgery on . A surgery is integer when .
Gordon's conjecture. If is a Seifert fibered space, then
This conjecture asserts that Seifert fibered manifolds cannot arise from non-integer surgeries on hyperbolic knots in . It would replace the exceptional-surgery results used in the paper and would imply the subsequent characterization of Montesinos knots with proper rational unknotting number one.
References
Primary source
Duncan McCoy and Raphael Zentner, “The Montesinos trick for proper rational tangle replacement”, arXiv:2110.15106 (2021).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1810.01563.
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