Neighbors of Seifert surgeries on a trefoil knot in the Seifert surgery network (Q485092)

The Seifert surgery network was introduced in [\textit{A. Deruelle} et al., Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 1021, iii-v, 130 p. (2012; Zbl 1277.57010)] to organize all (integral) Dehn surgeries on knots yielding Seifert fibered manifolds. A pair of a knot \(K\) in the \(3\)-sphere and an integer \(m\) is called a Seifert surgery if \(m\)-surgery on \(K\) yields a Seifert fibered manifold. Two Seifert surgeries are related by a twist along an unknot called a seiferter. For a given Seifert surgery \((K,m)\), an unknot \(c\) disjoint from \(K\) is a seiferter if \(c\) becomes a fiber in a Seifert fibration of the resulting manifold \(K(m)\) by Dehn surgery. After twisting along a seiferter, the original knot mostly changes. However, the new knot still admits Dehn surgery yielding a Seifert fibered manifold. Thus twisting along a seiferter of a Seifert surgery creates infinitely many Seifert surgeries. As an extended version of a seiferter, the authors also use an annular pair of seiferters. Consider a seiferter \(c\) for a Seifert surgery \((K,m)\). If the complement of the union of \(K\) and \(c\) is hyperbolic, then the seiferter is called a hyperbolic seiferter. This is quite useful, because twisting along a hyperbolic seiferter creates Seifert surgeries on hyperbolic knots. Hence the existence of hyperbolic seiferters is important. The main result of the paper under review is to give hyperbolic seiferters for Seifert surgeries on the trefoil. Using this, for any integer \(m\), the authors give a hyperbolic knot for which \(m\)-, \((m+1)\)-, and \((m+2)\)-surgeries yield small Seifert fibered manifolds. Also, they give infinitely many strongly invertible hyperbolic knots admitting small Seifert surgeries which do not come from the primitive/Seifert-fibered construction. In conclusion, we can say that the trefoil knot is a remarkable source of interesting Seifert surgeries.