Published September 23, 2011 | Version Submitted
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Dehn surgeries on knots in product manifolds

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Abstract

We show that if a surgery on a knot in a product sutured manifold yields the same product sutured manifold, then this knot is a 0- or 1-crossing knot. The proof uses techniques from sutured manifold theory.

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© 2011 London Mathematical Society. Received 27 January 2010; revised 20 June 2011. First published online: September 23, 2011 The author was partially supported by an AIM Five-Year Fellowship and NSF grant number DMS-0805807. We are grateful to Danny Calegari for helpful discussions on mapping class groups. This article is dedicated to the memory of Professor Andrew Lange.

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28633
DOI
10.1112/jtopol/jtr020
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CaltechAUTHORS:20120103-152321356

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AIM Five-Year Fellowship
NSF
DMS-0805807

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2012-01-06
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