Solution

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With zero framings, the surgery linking matrix is
Its eigenvalues are on the span of and on the complementary subspace, so . For , its Smith normal form is , and therefore
Handle slides reduce this surgery diagram to the standard surgery diagram of the lens space ; equivalently, the generator of the cokernel has linking pairing . Thus
up to the orientation convention for surgery. When , the matrix is and the exceptional answer is , with .

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