Reducible surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Reducible surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology
zbMATH Open document ID: 1323.57006
author: Jennifer Hom
author: Tye Lidman
author: Nicholas Zufelt
published in: Mathematical Research Letters
publication date: 2015-07-28T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5317
review text: The cabling conjecture claims that if a knot in the \(3\)-sphere admits Dehn surgery yielding a reducible manifold then the knot is cabled and the slope is given by the cabling annulus. This conjecture has been solved affirmatively for torus knots and satellite knots, so the remaining case is for hyperbolic knots. In other words, any hyperbolic knot is expected to admit no reducible surgery. For any reducible surgery, it is known that the slope is integral. Any knot admits at most two reducible surgeries, and if there are two, then these correspond to successive integers. Moreover, \textit{D. Matignon} and \textit{N. Sayari} [Hiroshima Math. J. 33, No. 1, 127--136 (2003; Zbl 1029.57007)] showed that for a non-cable knot, any reducing slope \(p\) lies in the range \(1<p\leq 2g-1\), where \(g\) denotes the genus of the knot. The main result of the paper under review claims that if a hyperbolic knot admits a positive \(L\)-space surgery, then any reducing slope for the knot is equal to \(2g-1\). An \(L\)-space is a rational homology sphere with the simplest Heegaard Floer homology. If a knot admits an \(L\)-space surgery, then the knot or its mirror image admits such a positive surgery. As said above, the cabling conjecture claims that any hyperbolic knot has no reducible surgery. Hence the main result gives a strong constraint for a reducing slope when a hyperbolic knot has an \(L\)-space surgery. The arguments are based on Heegaard Floer homology theory. As a corollary, we have that any \(L\)-space knot cannot admit two reducible surgeries. Genus one knots are known to have no reducible surgery, but the authors propose a new proof and get the same answer for genus two knots.
reviewed by: Masakazu Teragaito
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R58
zbMATH DE Number: 6466314
zbMATH Keywords: reducible surgery
zbMATH Keywords: Heegaard Floer homology
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 1307.5317
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.2015.V22.N3.A8
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