The Unlikely Intersection Theory and the Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture

Abstract

Update: The Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture modulo finitely many Dehn-filling coefficients has been a well-known classical result, so the first main result of this paper is not new. (But the author was initially unaware of this fact, and the tools and techniques used here are very different from all the classically known methods.) The second main result of the paper, that is, the generalized Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture for the 2-cusped case is new, but superseded by the author's later work.