On hyperbolic knots in S^3 with exceptional surgeries at maximal distance

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Abstract: Baker showed that 10 of the 12 classes of Berge knots are obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5-chain link. In this article we enumerate all hyperbolic knots in S^3 obtained by surgery on the minimally twisted 5 chain link that realize the maximal known distances between slopes corresponding to exceptional (lens, lens), (lens, toroidal), (lens, Seifert fibred spaces) pairs. In light of Baker's work, the classification in this paper conjecturally accounts for 'most' hyperbolic knots in S^3 realizing the maximal distance between these exceptional pairs. All examples obtained in our classification are realized by filling the magic manifold. The classification highlights additional examples not mentioned in Martelli and Petronio's survey of the exceptional fillings on the magic manifold. Of particular interest, is an example of a knot with two lens space surgeries that is not obtained by filling the Berge manifold.


Given a simple closed curve \(\alpha\) in the boundary of a knot complement \(K\), Dehn surgery along \(\alpha\) produces a closed manifold \(K(\alpha)\), defined up to homeomorphism, by attaching a solid torus \(T\) to \(K\) so that the attaching map takes a meridian on the boundary of \(T\) to \(\alpha\). The surgery is exceptional if \(K(\alpha)\) is not hyperbolic. The distance between \(K(\alpha)\) and \(K(\beta)\) is the minimal geometric intersection between \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\). In the article under review, the authors classify the hyperbolic knots \(K\) in \(S^3\) obtained from surgery on the minimally twisted 5-link that have a pair \(K(\alpha)\) and \(K(\beta)\) of exceptional surgeries that are a maximal distance apart. Specifically, \(K(\alpha)\) is a lens space and \(K(\beta)\) is either a lens space, a Seifert fibered space at distance 2, or a toriodal surgery at distance 3.











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