Gordon's purely cosmetic surgery conjecture in the 3-sphere

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Let KK be a nontrivial knot in S3S^3. For surgery slopes rr and ss, the manifolds Sr3(K)S^3_r(K) and Ss3(K)S^3_s(K) are purely cosmetic when they are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Gordon's purely cosmetic surgery conjecture. If reqsr eq s, then

Sr3(K)≆Ss3(K).S^3_r(K) \ncong S^3_s(K).

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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