Zero surgery on a connected sum as a splice

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Let and orient its filling core so that its longitude is . Then zero surgery on is the splice of and . Cutting the connected-sum exterior along its decomposing annulus and applying the annulus-quotient model of Dehn filling identifies with and with , which is exactly the splice gluing.

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