Ozsváth Szabó's correction term and lens surgery

Abstract

AbstractWe will give an explicit formula of Ozsváth–Szabó's correction terms of lens spaces. Applying the formula to a restriction studied by P. Ozsváth and Z. Szabó in [12] and [13], we obtain several constraints of lens spaces which are constructed by a positive Dehn surgery in 3-sphere. Some of the constraints are results which are analogous to results which were known in [6] and [20] before. The constraints completely determine knots yielding L(p, 1) by positive Dehn surgery.