The cosmetic surgery conjecture for non-trivial knots
The cosmetic surgery conjecture for non-trivial knots
Let be a non-trivial knot in . For relatively prime pairs of integers and with , write and for the corresponding Dehn surgeries.
Cosmetic surgery conjecture. If , then and are not orientation-preserving diffeomorphic.
The conjecture asserts that the unknot is the only knot in admitting distinct surgery slopes that produce orientation-preserving diffeomorphic three-manifolds. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.
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Primary source
Aliakbar Daemi, Mike Miller Eismeier and Tye Lidman, “Filtered instanton homology and cosmetic surgery”, arXiv:2410.21248 (2025).
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