The no-alternating-surgery conjecture for knots sharing Alexander polynomials with
Let be a knot, and suppose that there is a knot with
Here denotes the Alexander polynomial of , and denotes the set of alternating surgery slopes. No-alternating-surgery conjecture.
The source states that the conjecture is needed to complete the analysis of knots outside and that no examples are currently known of such knots admitting alternating surgeries.
References
Primary source
Kenneth L. Baker, Marc Kegel and Duncan McCoy, “The search for alternating surgeries”, arXiv:2409.09842 (2026).
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