Cyclic surgery on knots
Cyclic surgery on knots
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结节循环手术
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9939-1989-0984820-6
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发表时间:
1989
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Shi Cheng Wang
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Shi Cheng Wang
We get a necessary condition under which a nonsimple knot (i.e. a satellite knot) admits a nontrivial surgery producing a lens space. Interesting corollaries are: ( 1) if a lens space can be obtained from a nontrivial surgery on a nonsimple knot, then the order of its fundamental group is not smaller than 23; (2) any nonsimple knot admits at most one nontrivial surgery which produces a lens space. Some topologists are interested in the problem of doing surgery on a knot complement to get a lens space. This note is devoted to providing more information on this problem. Our main result is the following: Theorem 1. If a lens space can be obtainedfrom a nontrivial surgery on a nonsimple knot (i.e. a satellite knot) J(K), then K is a torus knot and J is a closed braid in a tubular neighborhood of K. There are two interesting corollaries of Theorem 1. D. Gabai proved that one cannot get a lens space with fundamental group of order 1 (i.e. S3) from a nontrivial surgery on a nonsimple knot (in fact nonsimple knots have property P). J. Bailey and D. Rolfsen [BR] (also R. Fintushel and R. Stern [FS] and C. Gordon [G]) proved that some lens space with fundamental group of order 23 can be obtained from a nontrivial surgery on a nonsimple knot. The first corollary says that 23 is the smallest possible. Corollary 1. If a lens space can be obtained from a nontrivial surgery on a nonsimple knot (i.e. a satellite knot), then the order of its fundamental group is not smaller than 23. M. Culler, C. M. Gordon, J. Luecke, and P. Shalen [CGLS] proved that there are at most two nontrivial surgeries on a nontorus knot which produce lens spaces. Corollary 2 below says that a nontorus knot which admits two nontrivial surgeries producing lens spaces must be a hyperbolic knot. (Berge found infinitely many such nontorus knots.) Received by the editors February 4, 1988, and in revised form, August 17. 1988. 1980 Alathernatics S/ihject Classification (I1985 Rewision). Primary 57N 10. (? 1989 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/89 $ 1.00 + $.25 per page