A remark on the finiteness of purely cosmetic surgeries (Q6167511)

The (purely) cosmetic surgery conjecture states that no two surgeries on a given nontrivial knot yield the same 3-manifolds up to orientation preserving diffeomorphism. This paper shows that the purely cosmetic surgery conjecture holds for all knots \(K\) in \(S^3\) with \(g(K) \geq \frac{3}{2} b(K)\), where \(g(K)\) and \(b(K)\) denote the genus and the braid index, respectively. In particular, this establishes the finiteness of purely cosmetic surgeries for a fixed \(b(K)\). \textit{J. Hanselman} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 25, No. 5, 1627--1670 (2023; Zbl 1526.57011)] provided a quite strong constraint for cosmetic surgeries, which gives a bound for cosmetic surgery slopes in terms of \(th(K)\) and \(g(K)\), where \(th(K)\) is the thickness of the knot Floer homology. By applying the quantitative refinement of Birman and Menasco's finiteness theorem [\textit{J. S. Birman} and \textit{W. W. Menasco}, Pac. J. Math. 156, No. 2, 265--286 (1992; Zbl 0739.57002)] shown in the author's previous paper [\textit{T. Ito}, J. Topol. 15, No. 4, 1794--1806 (2022; Zbl 07738264)], he gives an upper bound for the thickness \(th(K)\) in terms of \(g(K)\) and \(b(K)\). Applying this bound for \(th(K)\) and Hanselman's result directly shows the main result of this paper.