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Zero surgery on the Hopf link (S0,03​(Hopf)≅S3)

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The Hopf link exterior is T2×I. Each component's Seifert longitude is the other's meridian. Filling the two boundary tori along these longitudes therefore attaches solid tori with meridians intersecting once on a common torus, recovering the standard genus-one splitting of the three-sphere. Merely specifying two linked unknots without specifying their link type does not force this answer.

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