The at-most-two-slopes conjecture for alternating surgeries
The at-most-two-slopes conjecture for alternating surgeries
Let notin be a knot admitting positive alternating surgeries. Write for the set of alternating surgery slopes, and let denote the relevant integer parameter. At-most-two-slopes conjecture.
In particular, the only knots with non-integral alternating surgeries are in . The theorem cited in the source verifies this for knots whose Alexander polynomials obstruct them from lying in ; the remaining case concerns knots outside sharing their Alexander polynomial with a knot in , and remains open.
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Kenneth L. Baker, Marc Kegel and Duncan McCoy, “The search for alternating surgeries”, arXiv:2409.09842 (2026).
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