Cosmetic surgery in L-spaces and nugatory crossings

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6839zbMATH Open1368.57005arXiv1507.00699OpenAlexW858300670WikidataQ57426551 ScholiaQ57426551MaRDI QIDQ2960441FDOQ2960441

Allison H. Moore, Tye Lidman

Publication date: 9 February 2017

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The cosmetic crossing conjecture (also known as the "nugatory crossing conjecture") asserts that the only crossing changes that preserve the oriented isotopy class of a knot in the 3-sphere are nugatory. We use the Dehn surgery characterization of the unknot to prove this conjecture for knots in integer homology spheres whose branched double covers are L-spaces satisfying a homological condition. This includes as a special case all alternating and quasi-alternating knots with square-free determinant. As an application, we prove the cosmetic crossing conjecture holds for all knots with at most nine crossings and provide new examples of knots, including pretzel knots, non-arborescent knots and symmetric unions for which the conjecture holds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00699

zbMATH Keywords

branched coveringL-spacecosmetic crossing conjecturequasi-alternating knots

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• KnotInfo

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