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Cosmetic surgery in L–space homology spheres

Abstract

Let K be a nontrivial knot in S^3, and let r and r′ be two distinct rational numbers of same sign. We prove that there is no orientation-preserving homeomorphism between the manifolds S_r^3(K) and S_r′^3(K). We further generalize this uniqueness result to knots in arbitrary L–space homology spheres

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