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Every knot has characterising slopes

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Let K be a knot in the 3-sphere. A slope p/q is said to be characterising for K if whenever p/q surgery on K is homeomorphic, via an orientation-preserving homeomorphism, to p/q surgery on another knot K in the 3-sphere, then K and K are isotopic. It was an old conjecture of Gordon, proved by Kronheimer, Mrowka, Ozsváth and Szabó, that every slope is characterising for the unknot. In this paper, we show that every knot K has infinitely many characterising slopes, confirming a conjecture of Ba...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s00208-018-1757-x

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
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Lackenby, M
Grant:
EP/R005125/1
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg Publisher's website
Journal:
Mathematische Annalen Journal website
Volume:
374
Issue:
1-2
Pages:
429–446
Publication date:
2018-10-06
Acceptance date:
2018-07-30
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EISSN:
1432-1807
ISSN:
0025-5831
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pubs:708228
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uuid:14712bef-c0b9-4c33-b46a-871ec9c466a0
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708228
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2018-08-08

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