Dehn surgery and Heegaard Floer homology

This thesis presents some new results on Dehn surgery. The overarching theme of the thesis is to find restrictions on obtaining a 3-manifold by a Dehn surgery on a knot in another 3-manifold (although we also find new examples in chapter 5) and most of these restrictions are obtained by exploring th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gainullin, Fjodor
Other Authors: Buck, Dorothy
Published: Imperial College London 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702806