Abstract

Two Dehn surgeries on a knot are called purely cosmetic if their surgered manifolds are homeomorphic as oriented manifolds. Gordon conjectured that nontrivial knots in [Formula: see text] do not admit purely cosmetic surgeries. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture for cable knots.

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