L-space surgeries, genus bounds, and the cabling conjecture

DOI10.4310/JDG/1432842362MaRDI QIDQ2354902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joshua Evan Greene

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1130, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1432842362

zbMATH Keywords

\(L\)-spacecabling conjecturegenusHeegaard Floer homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We prove that if positive integer p-surgery along a knot K subset S^3 produces an L-space and it bounds a sharp 4-manifold, then the knot genus obeys the bound 2g(K) -1 leq p - sqrt{3p+1}. Moreover, there exists an infinite family of pairs (K_n,p_n) attaining this bound, where K_n denotes an n-fold iterated cable of the unknot and p_n o infty. In particular, the stated bound applies when the knot surgery produces a lens space or a connected sum thereof. Combined with work of Gordon-Luecke, Hoffman, and Matignon-Sayari, it follows that if surgery along a knot produces a connected sum of lens spaces, then the knot is either a torus knot or a cable thereof, confirming the cabling conjecture in this case.

Review text

Let \(K\) be a knot with genus \(g(K)\). Suppose that a positive integral surgery \(p\) on \(K\) yields a lens space. P. Kronheimer, T. Mrowka, P. Ozsváth and Z. Szabó [\textit{P. B. Kronheimer} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 165, No. 2, 457--546 (2007; Zbl 1204.57038)] showed that \(2g(K)-1\leq p\) by using monopole Floer homology. In fact, this holds for \(L\)-space surgery. The main result gives a sharper inequality \(2g(K)-1\leq p-\sqrt{p}-1\) under the assumption that the resulting \(L\)-space bounds a smooth negative definite \(4\)-manifold \(X\) with torsion-free first homology. Moreover, if \(X\) can be chosen to satisfy another condition involving correction terms, then the improved bound \(2g(K)-1\leq p-\sqrt{3p+1}\) holds. The author gives an infinite family of knots, each of which attains the equality in the latter. As an application of the main result, a partial answer to the cabling conjecture is proved. If a surgery on a knot yields a connected sum of lens spaces, then the knot is either a torus knot or a cable of a torus knot. The surgery slope is also identified.

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