Seifert fibred manifolds and Dehn surgery (Q2565089)

This paper describes Dehn surgeries on satellite knots in \(S^3\) which produce Seifert fibred manifolds. The following result is obtained as a corollary: Let \(K\) be a satellite knot which is not cabled exactly once, and assume that a nontrivial surgery yields a Seifert fibred manifold. Then (1) the surgery slope is integral, (2) if there are at most four such surgeries, and (3) if there are four then they are two pairs of successive integers. (Combining the arguments in this paper and the exceptional surgery theorems by \textit{S. Boyer} and \textit{X. Zhang} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 31, No. 2, 197-203 (1994; Zbl 0817.57020)], the authors improve the above result in a subsequent paper; they show that there are at most two such surgeries and that if there are two then they are successive.) Those surgeries which yield simple Seifert fibred manifolds are studied by using the results of Gabai and Scharlemann on surgeries on solid tori. Those surgeries which yield non-simple Seifert fibred manifolds are studied by using the reducible surgery theorems by Gordon-Luecke and the operation, called a modification of a knot, which produces from a satellite knot with a non-simple Seifert surgery a knot with a reducible surgery. The paper also includes a construction of a family of satellite knots whose exteriors are not graph manifolds and which produce non-simple Seifert fibred manifolds by surgery.