Asymmetric L-space knots (Q2224530)

Examples of asymmetric L-space knots in the \(3\)-sphere \(S^3\) are constructed. Thus, the conjecture that an L-space knot in \(S^3\) is strongly invertible ([\textit{T. Lidman} and \textit{A. H. Moore}, Mich. Math. J. 65, No. 1, 105--130 (2016; Zbl 1338.57009)] and [\textit{L. Watson}, Adv. Math. 313, 915--946 (2017; Zbl 1368.57008)]) is solved in the negative. More specifically, a family of surgeries on hyperbolic knots in \(S^3\) satisfying the following conditions (1-1), (1-2) and (2) are constructed and proved: (1-1) the surgery can be realized as a surgery on a strongly invertible link, (1-2) the result of the surgery is the double branched cover of an alternating link and (2) the symmetry group of the knot complement is trivial. In particular, this produces L-space knots in \(S^3\) which are not strongly invertible. The double branched cover of a nonsplit alternating link is an L-space, by [\textit{P. Ozváth} and \textit{Z. Szabó}, Adv. Math. 194, No. 1, 1--33 (2005; Zbl 1076.57013)]. A new method, \textit{\(p/q\)-lashings} of a pair of pants embedded in a 3-manifold, is introduced. It is a combination of Dehn surgeries (with rational coefficients) along a three component link and is also realized as a Dehn surgery (with an integral coefficient) along a knot in the 3-manifold. As an extension of the construction, infinitely many asymmetric L-space knots in any lens space, including \(S^1\times S^2\), are also constructed.