A family of knots yielding graph manifolds by Dehn surgery. (Q2491071)

The author defines a certain family of knots \(k_{(l,a;r,b)}\) in an embedded, once-punctured torus \(P_{(l,r)}\). He sets \(p_{(l,a;r,b)}:=(a^2+ab+rb^2)\), where \((a,b)\) is a coprime pair of integers with \(1<a<b\). Then his main theorem is the following: Theorem 1.1. For each \((l,a;r,b)\) as described previously, the resulting manifold \((k_{(l,a;r,b)})\); \(p_{(l,a;r,b)})\) of \(p_{(l,a;r,b)}\)-surgery along the knot \(k_{(l,a;r,b)}\) is ``at most'' a graph manifold obtained by splicing two Seifert manifolds over \(S^2\) (possibly reduced to a Seifert manifold over \(S^2\), a lens space, or a connected sum of two lens spaces in some cases).