Berge's conjecture on lens space knots

Let KS3K\subset S^3 be a lens space knot, meaning that some positive integer surgery on KK produces a lens space. Berge's construction gives a family of such knots. Berge conjecture. If an integer surgery along a knot KK in S3S^3 produces a lens space, then KK must arise from Berge's construction. This conjecture seeks to classify all knots admitting lens space surgery; it is presented here as an open problem.

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Primary source

Woohyeok Jo, Jongil Park and Kyungbae Park, “On lens spaces bounding smooth 4-manifolds with b_2=1”, arXiv:2410.22719 (2024).

Additional references

8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1904.03268, arXiv:1810.08751, arXiv:1612.04921, arXiv:1010.6257, arXiv:0804.3048, arXiv:math/0612427, arXiv:math/0502303.

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