{ "id": "1902.06801", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-02-18T21:00:08.000Z", "updated": "2019-02-18T21:00:08.000Z", "title": "Cosmetic surgeries and the Poincare homology sphere", "authors": [ "Tye Lidman" ], "comment": "2 pages", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "In this short note, we prove that if a knot in the Poincare homology sphere is homotopically essential, then it does not admit any purely cosmetic surgeries.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-02-18T21:00:08.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "poincare homology sphere", "purely cosmetic surgeries", "short note", "homotopically essential" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 2, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }