Cosmetic banding on knots and links (Q1626399)

In this interesting, well-illustrated paper the authors give examples of knots and links for which ``bandings'' of diagrams leave types unchanged, producing as a byproduct a counterexample to a 20 year old conjecture of Bleier, Hodgson and Weeks -- to wit, a hyperbolic knot that admits exotic chirally cosmetic Dehn surgeries yielding hyperbolic 3-manifolds (noting that it remains an open question ``whether there exists a non-trivial purely cosmetic banding on a link''). The paper is dedicated to Professor Taizo Kanenobu on the occasion of his 60th birthday, whom this reviewer would like to belatedly thank for being the first professional mathematician to mention in print, some 40 years ago, the duplication in C. N. Little's 1899 knot table that has since come to be known as ``the Perko pair.''