On the maximal number and the diameter of exceptional surgery slope sets

zbMATH Open1329.57036arXiv1110.0572MaRDI QIDQ3463683FDOQ3463683

Kazuhiro Ichihara

Publication date: 20 January 2016

Abstract: Concerning the set of exceptional surgery slopes for a hyperbolic knot, Lackenby and Meyerhoff proved that the maximal cardinality is 10 and the maximal diameter is 8. Their proof is computer-aided in part, and both bounds are achieved simultaneously. In this note, it is observed that the diameter bound 8 implies the maximal cardinality bound 10 for exceptional surgery slope sets. This follows from the next known fact: For a hyperbolic knot, there exists a slope on the peripheral torus such that all exceptional surgery slopes have distance at most two from the slope. We also show that, in generic cases, that particular slope above can be taken as the slope represented by the shortest geodesic on a horotorus in a hyperbolic knot complement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0572

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Cited In (2)

• Exceptional surgery and boundary slopes
• The diameter of the set of boundary slopes of a knot

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