Ichihara–Ito–Saito's chirally cosmetic surgery conjecture for knots in S3S^3

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3 that is not a (2,r)(2,r) torus knot, and let N=S3KN=S^3-K. Let (s,s)(s,s') be a chirally cosmetic pair of slopes on N\partial N. Ichihara–Ito–Saito's conjecture. Then KK has an orientation-reversing symmetry and s=ss'=-s. The conjecture describes the restricted form of chirally cosmetic surgeries expected for non-torus knots in the 3-sphere. The paper states that its formulation is designed to avoid known counterexamples, so the broader unrestricted version is refuted; this restricted statement is presented as the conjecture under discussion.

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David Futer, Jessica S. Purcell and Saul Schleimer, “Excluding cosmetic surgeries on hyperbolic 3-manifolds”, arXiv:2403.10448 (2025).

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