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A number theoretic result for Berge's conjecture

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Rasmussen, Sarah Dean 

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(Original version of PhD thesis, submitted in Spring 2009 to Harvard University. Provides a solution of the p>k2 case, corresponding to Berge families I-VI, of the "Lens space realization problem" later solved in entirety by Greene.) In the 1980's, Berge proved that a certain collection of knots in S3 admitted lens space surgeries, a list which Gordon conjectured was exhaustive. More recently, J. Rasmussen used techniques from Heegaard Floer homology to translate the related problem of classifying simple knots in lens spaces admitting L-space homology sphere surgeries into a combinatorial number theory question about the data (p,q,k) associated to a knot of homology class kH1(L(p,q)) in the lens space L(p,q). In the following paper, we solve this number theoretic problem in the case of p>k2.

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math.GT, math.GT, 57M27

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Harvard University PhD Thesis, 2009, ProQuest LLC

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NSF (National Science Foundation USA Graduate Research Fellowship)