Dehn surgery functions are never injective
Abstract
We prove that, for each fixed rational number p/q ∈ Q, there exists a pair of distinct knots whose p/q-surgeries are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic. This confirms a 1978 conjecture of Gordon.
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