Deficiency Symmetries of Surgeries in S-3

作者:Gibbons Julian
来源:International Mathematics Research Notices, 2015, (22): 12126-12151.
DOI:10.1093/imrn/rnv032

摘要

We examine certain symmetries in the deficiencies of a rational surgery on a knot in S-3 by comparing the Spin(c)-structures on the rational surgery with those on a related integral surgery. We then provide an application of these symmetries in the form of a theorem that obstructs Dehn surgeries in S-3. This last part unifies and generalizes two theorems by Greene which underlie his work on the cabling conjecture, the lens space realization problem, and the unknotting number of alternating 3-braids.

  • 出版日期2015