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Reducible surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology

Authors :
Jennifer Hom
Tye Lidman
Nicholas Zufelt
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

In this paper, we use Heegaard Floer homology to study reducible surgeries. In particular, suppose K is a non-cable knot in the three-sphere with an L-space surgery. If p-surgery on K is reducible, we show that p equals 2g(K)-1. This implies that any knot with an L-space surgery has at most one reducible surgery, a fact that we show additionally for any knot of genus at most two.<br />15 pages, 2 figures; added an additional author and a new section (3.2) which improves Theorem 1.3

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....3c03dd0827ddfcb645c43b0bdfad2fae