Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture

Let KK be a knot, and let Sr3(K)S^3_r(K) denote the manifold obtained by surgery along KK with slope rr. Purely Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture. If

Sr3(K)Sr3(K)S^3_r(K) \cong S^3_{r'}(K)

via an orientation-preserving homeomorphism, then either KK is the unknot or r=rr=r'. 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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