The hyperbolic cosmetic filling conjecture

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Let NN be a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold, and consider fillings of NN along distinct slopes that produce hyperbolic manifolds. A filling pair is cosmetic if the resulting manifolds are homeomorphic, either orientation-preservingly (true) or orientation-reversingly (reflective). Hyperbolic cosmetic filling conjecture. Cusped hyperbolic manifolds admit no cosmetic fillings, true or reflective, yielding hyperbolic manifolds. The conjecture is motivated by an earlier theorem in the source, but no resolution is supplied.

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Steven A. Bleiler, Craig D. Hodgson and Jeffrey R. Weeks, “Cosmetic surgery on knots”, arXiv:math/9911247 (1999).

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