Gordon's conjecture on Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic knots

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Let K⊆S3K\subseteq S^3 be a hyperbolic knot, and let Sp/q3(K)S^3_{p/q}(K) denote the result of p/qp/q-Dehn surgery on KK. A surgery is integer when q=1q=1.

Gordon's conjecture. If Sp/q3(K)S^3_{p/q}(K) is a Seifert fibered space, then

q=1.q=1.

This conjecture asserts that Seifert fibered manifolds cannot arise from non-integer surgeries on hyperbolic knots in S3S^3. 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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