Non-invertible knots having toroidal Dehn surgery of hitting number four (Q1012462)

For a hyperbolic knot \(K\) in the \(3\)-sphere, it is known by Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem that there are at most finitely many Dehn surgeries on \(K\) which yield non-hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds. A typical one is a Dehn surgery creating a \(3\)-manifold which contains an incompressible torus, called a toroidal Dehn surgery. Given a toroidal \(r\)-Dehn surgery on \(K\), denote by \(K(r)\) the resulting \(3\)-manifold. Then the hitting number of the surgery is defined to be the minimum of \(|K^* \cap T|\) over all incompressible tori \(T\) in \(K(r)\), where \(K^*\) is the core of the attached solid torus in \(K(r)\). Since \(K\) is hyperbolic, the hitting number is positive, and it is known that the only possible odd hitting number is one. In the author's work [Topology Appl. 157, No. 1, 269--273 (2010; Zbl 1185.57008)], it was shown that any even integer can be realized as a hitting number. In this paper, the author shows that there exist infinitely many non-invertible hyperbolic knots that admit a toroidal Dehn surgery of hitting number four.