Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture
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.
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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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