Dehn surgery creating Klein bottles (Q874838)

Let \(K\) be a knot in \(S^3\) and let \(M(r)\) denote the \(3\)--manifold obtained by \(r\)-Dehn surgery on \(K\), that is, \(M(r)\) is obtained by gluing a solid torus \(V\) and the exterior of \(K\), \(M=S^3-\operatorname{int} N(K)\), along their boundaries, such that a meridian of \(V\) is glued to a curve of slope \(r\) on \(\partial N(K)\). Suppose that \(M(r)\) contains an embedded Klein bottle. \textit{C. Gordon} and \textit{J. Luecke} [Commun. Anal. Geom. 3, 597--644 (1995; Zbl 0865.57015)] showed that if \(K\) is a non-cabled knot then the slope \(r\) must be integral, and \textit{M. Teragaito} [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 10, 781--794 (2001; Zbl 1001.57039)] showed that \(r\) must be a multiple of \(4\). It is well known that if \(K\) is the figure eight knot, then surgery with slopes \(4\) and \(-4\) produces manifolds containing Klein bottles. In the paper under review it is shown that if for a non-cabled knot \(K\), not the figure eight knot, there are two slopes \(r\) and \(s\) such that \(M(r)\) and \(M(s)\) contain a Klein bottle, then \(\Delta (r,s)\leq 4\). The proof uses the theory of graphs of intersection. This result was previously known for the case when \(M(r)\) and \(M(s)\) both contain a Klein bottle which pierces the attached solid torus in exactly one disk (i.e. the knot exterior contains two Seifert Klein bottles) [\textit{K. Ichihara, M. Ohtouge} and \textit{M. Teragaito}, Topology Appl. 122, 467--478 (2002; Zbl 0997.57009)]. We remark that there is no known example of a knot \(K\) in \(S^3\) and slope \(r\), such that \(M(r)\) contains a Klein Bottle which pierces the attached solid torus in necessarily 3 or more disks.