Characterizing slopes for torus knots, II

Abstract: A slope

f r a c p q

is called a characterizing slope for a given knot

K_{0} s u b s e t S^{3}

if whenever the

f r a c p q

--surgery on a knot

K s u b s e t S^{3}

is homeomorphic to the

f r a c p q

--surgery on

K_{0}

via an orientation preserving homeomorphism, then

K = K_{0}

. In a previous paper, we showed that, outside a certain finite set of slopes, only the negative integers could possibly be non-characterizing slopes for the torus knot

T_{5, 2}

. Applying recent work of Baldwin--Hu--Sivek, we improve our result by showing that a nontrivial slope

f r a c p q

is a characterizing slope for

T_{5, 2}

if

f r a c p q > - 1

and

f r a c p q o t i n 0, 1, p m f r a c 12, p m f r a c 13

. In particular, every nontrivial L-space slope of

T_{5, 2}

is characterizing for

T_{5, 2}

. As a consequence, if a nontrivial

f r a c p q

-surgery on a non-torus knot in

S^{3}

yields a manifold of finite fundamental group, then

| p | > 9

.

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