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Knots in Washington XXXV
December 7-9, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Exceptional Surgery and Bridge Distance
by
Ryan Blair
University of Pennsylvania
Coauthors: Marion Campisi, Jesse Johnson, Scott A. Taylor, Maggy Tomova

We demonstrate a lower bound on the genus of an essential surface or Heegaard surface in a 3-manifold obtained by non-trivial surgery on a link in terms of the bridge distance of a bridge surface for the link. Consequently, knots with high distance bridge surfaces do not admit non-trivial non-hyperbolic surgeries or non-trivial cosmetic surgeries.

Date received: November 29, 2012

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