Gordon's purely cosmetic surgery conjecture in the 3-sphere
Let be a nontrivial knot in . For surgery slopes and , the manifolds and are purely cosmetic when they are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Gordon's purely cosmetic surgery conjecture. If , then
No examples of purely cosmetic surgeries are known, and the conjecture asserts that distinct surgery slopes on a nontrivial knot never yield homeomorphic oriented manifolds.
References
Primary source
Feride Ceren Kose, “On amphichirality of symmetric unions”, arXiv:2111.08765 (2021).
Additional references
6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2104.07922, arXiv:2102.11323, arXiv:1907.13502, arXiv:1906.06773, arXiv:1505.00238.
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