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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 1997-036

Non-integral toroidal surgery on hyperbolic knots in $S^3$

Cameron McA. Gordon, Ying-Qing Wu, and Xingru Zhang

We show that on any hyperbolic knot in $S^3$ there is at most one non-integral Dehn surgery which yields a manifold containing an incompressible torus.