Kazuhiro Ichihara; In Dae Jong; Thomas W. Mattman; Toshio Saito
Algebraic and Geometric Topology Mathematical Sciences Publishers 21 (5) 2411 - 2424 1472-2747 2021
[Refereed] We show that two-bridge knots and alternating fibered knots admit no purely cosmetic surgeries, i.e., no pair of distinct Dehn surgeries on such a knot produce 3-manifolds that are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Our argument, based on a recent result by Hanselman, uses several invariants of knots or 3-manifolds; for knots, we study the signature and some finite type invariants, and for 3-manifolds, we deploy the SL(2,ℂ) Casson invariant.