Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture
Let be a knot, and let denote the manifold obtained by surgery along with slope . Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture. If
via an orientation-preserving homeomorphism, then either is the unknot or . The paper proves that two infinite families of knots satisfy this conjecture using the Jones polynomial and related surgery obstructions, while the conjecture remains open in general.
References
Primary source
F. M. Brady, “Using the Jones Polynomial to Prove Infinite Families of Knots Satisfy the Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture”, arXiv:2512.20511 (2026).
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