Lens spaces and Dehn surgery

Bleiler, Steven A.; Litherland, Richard A.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1989-0984783-3

Lens spaces and Dehn surgery
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 107 (1989), 1127-1131 Request permission

Abstract:

The question of when a lens space arises by Dehn surgery is discussed with a characterization given for satellite knots. The lens space $L\left ( {2,1} \right )$, i.e. real projective $3$-space, is shown to be unobtainable by surgery on a symmetric knot.

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