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June 2011 Surgical Distance between Lens Spaces
Kazuhiro ICHIHARA, Toshio SAITO
Tokyo J. Math. 34(1): 153-164 (June 2011). DOI: 10.3836/tjm/1313074448

Abstract

It is well-known that any pair of closed orientable 3-manifolds are related by a finite sequence of Dehn surgeries on knots. Furthermore Kawauchi showed that such knots can be taken to be hyperbolic. In this article, we consider the minimal length of such sequences connecting a pair of 3-manifolds, in particular, a pair of lens spaces.

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Kazuhiro ICHIHARA. Toshio SAITO. "Surgical Distance between Lens Spaces." Tokyo J. Math. 34 (1) 153 - 164, June 2011. https://doi.org/10.3836/tjm/1313074448

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Published: June 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 11 August 2011

zbMATH: 1270.57023
MathSciNet: MR2866640
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3836/tjm/1313074448

Subjects:
Primary: 57M50
Secondary: 57M25

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Publication Committee for the Tokyo Journal of Mathematics

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