Unbounded common surgery slopes among pairs of knots
Unbounded common surgery slopes among pairs of knots
Let be a natural number. Let denote the -surgery on a knot .
Unbounded-slope conjecture. For any natural number there exist pairwise-different integers and non-isotopic knots and such that, for , is orientation-preserving diffeomorphic to .
This is an equivalent quantified formulation of the claim that there is no bound on the number of slopes for which some pair of knots can have common surgeries. The paper provides examples with four common surgeries, but the arbitrary- statement remains open.
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Marc Kegel and Lisa Piccirillo, “Knots that share four surgeries”, arXiv:2505.13168 (2025).
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