{ "id": "2302.05068", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-02-10T05:57:49.000Z", "updated": "2023-02-10T05:57:49.000Z", "title": "Certain connect sums of torus knots with infinitely many non-characterizing slopes", "authors": [ "Konstantinos Varvarezos" ], "comment": "22 pages, 24 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "For a knot $K,$ a slope $r$ is said to be characterizing if for no other knot $J$ does $r$-framed surgery along $J$ yield the same manifold as $r$-framed surgery on $K.$ Applying a condition of Baker and Motegi, we show that the knots $T_{2,2n+3}\\#T_{-2,2n+1}$ have infinitely many non-characterizing slopes.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-02-10T05:57:49.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57K10" ], "keywords": [ "non-characterizing slopes", "torus knots", "connect sums", "framed surgery" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }