Seifert fibered surgeries on strongly invertible knots without primitive/Seifert positions (Q898511)

This paper expands knowledge of Dehn \(m\)-surgeries on knots \(K\) in \(S^3\) which produce Seifert fibered spaces. Such surgery is referred to as Seifert fiber surgery. Of particular interest are the cases in which there is a Heegaard surface \(F\) of genus \(2\) which contains \(K\) and on which adding a \(2\)-handle along \(K\) yields a solid torus from one side of \(F\), and a Seifert Fibered space with \(2\) exceptional fibers from the other side. The surface slope of \(K\) on \(F\) should agree with the surgery slope \(m\). Such a placement of \(K\) is called ``primitive/Seifert''. When \(K\) is strongly invertible there need not be such a placement, according to A. Deruelle, K. Miyazaki, K. Motegi, in [\textit{A. Deruelle} et al., Bol. Soc. Mat. Mex., III. Ser. 20, No. 2, 523--558 (2014; Zbl 1307.57003)]. The paper under review here produces still more examples using \(2\)-fold branched coverings of tangles, a variant of the methods of [\textit{M. Eudave-Muñoz}, Topology Appl. 121, No. 1--2, 119--141 (2002; Zbl 1009.57010)] and [\textit{A. Deruelle} et al., Contemp. Math. 597, 235--262 (2013; Zbl 1291.57007)]. Their examples may be obtained from a sequence of ``twists'' along fibers beginning with the Seifert fiber spaces arising from surgery on the trefoil. In view of the existence of strongly invertible hyperbolic knots admitting Seifert fiber surgery but without primitive/Seifert embeddings, and noting that tunnel number \(>1\) is observed for all known examples of knots without primitive/Seifert embeddings, the authors ask if tunnel number \(1\) is in fact sufficient for a knot admitting Seifert fiber surgery to have a primitive/Seifert position.