Gordon's conjecture on Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic knots

Let KS3K\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.

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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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