Seifert fibered manifolds and Dehn surgery. III (Q1304450)

[Part I: Topology 36, No. 2, 579-603 (1997; Zbl 0936.57009); Part II: Math. Ann. 311, No. 4, 647-664 (1998).] In the theory of 3-manifolds, there is a conjecture asserting that nontrivial, Seifert fibering surgeries on knots in the 3-sphere are integral surgeries unless the knot is a trivial knot, a torus knot, or a cable of a torus knot. The conjecture is proved for 2-bridge knots and satellite knots, as well as in the case where the Dehn surgery on the knot yields a Seifert fibration over \(\mathbb{R} P^2\) or a fibration over \(S^2\) with less than three or greater than three exceptional fibers. In the article under review, for knots in a solid torus that are not contained in 3-balls in the torus, the authors prove a result analogous to that one in the conjecture for knots in the 3-sphere. As an application of the result, they show that the conjecture for knots in the 3-sphere holds if a regular or exceptional fiber of the resulting Seifert fibered manifold is unknotted in the 3-sphere; this assumption is verified for many Seifert fibering surgeries. As another application, the authors show that except for trivial examples, no periodic knots with period greater than 2 produce (by sugery) a Seifert fibered manifold with an infinite fundamental group.