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Mathematical Research Letters
Volume 22 (2015)
Number 3
Reducible surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology
Pages: 763 – 788
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2015.v22.n3.a8
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Abstract
In this paper, we use Heegaard Floer homology to study reducible surgeries. In particular, suppose $K$ is a non-cable knot in $S^3$ with a positive $L$-space surgery. If $p$-surgery on $K$ is reducible, we show that $p = 2g(K)-1$. This implies that any knot with an $L$-space surgery has at most one reducible surgery, a fact that we show additionally for any knot of genus at most two.
Accepted 9 September 2014
Published 20 May 2015