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arxiv: 1501.01159 · v2 · pith:T6VRHDHCnew · submitted 2015-01-06 · 🧮 math.GT

Seifert surgery on knots via Reidemeister torsion and Casson-Walker-Lescop invariant II

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For a knot $K$ with $\Delta_K(t)\doteq t^2-3t+1$ in a homology $3$-sphere, let $M$ be the result of $2/q$-surgery on $K$. We show that an appropriate assumption on the Reidemeister torsion of the universal abelian covering of $M$ implies $q=\pm 1$, if $M$ is a Seifert fibered space.

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