Noncharacterizing slopes for hyperbolic knots

Abstract: A non-trivial slope

r

on a knot

K

in

S^{3}

is called a characterizing slope if whenever the result of

r

-surgery on a knot

K^{'}

is orientation preservingly homeomorphic to the result of

r

-surgery on

K

, then

K^{'}

is isotopic to

K

. Ni and Zhang ask: for any hyperbolic knot

K

, is a slope

r = p / q

with

| p | + | q |

sufficiently large a characterizing slope? In this article we answer this question in the negative by demonstrating that there is a hyperbolic knot

K

in

S^{3}

which has infinitely many non-characterizing slopes. As the simplest known example, the hyperbolic knot

8_{6}

has no integral characterizing slopes.

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