For each rational slope p/q, two distinct knots exist whose p/q Dehn surgeries are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic, resolving Gordon's 1978 conjecture.
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Dehn surgery functions are never injective
For each rational slope p/q, two distinct knots exist whose p/q Dehn surgeries are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic, resolving Gordon's 1978 conjecture.