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Thurston norm and cosmetic surgeries

arXiv:1001.3926

Abstract

Two Dehn surgeries on a knot are called cosmetic if they yield homeomorphic manifolds. For a null-homologous knot with certain conditions on the Thurston norm of the ambient manifold, if the knot admits cosmetic surgeries, then the surgery coefficients are equal up to sign.

13 pages, 4 figures. To appear in 2009 Georgia Topology Conference Proceedings

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