The purely cosmetic surgery conjecture is true for the Kinoshita-Terasaka and Conway knot families

2020/09/01 by Boehnke, Bryan, Gillis, Conan, Liu, Hanwen +1
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.00522

Abstract

We show that all nontrivial members of the Kinoshita-Terasaka and Conway knot families satisfy the purely cosmetic surgery conjecture.

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