Circular orderability of 3-manifold groups

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Authors Idrissa Ba, Adam Clay

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model theory of denumerable and separable structures (03C15) Ordered groups (06F15) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: This paper initiates the study of circular orderability of $3$-manifold groups, motivated by the L-space conjecture. We show that a compact, connected, $mathbb{P}^2$-irreducible $3$-manifold has a circularly orderable fundamental group if and only if there exists a finite cyclic cover with left-orderable fundamental group, which naturally leads to a "circular orderability version" of the L-space conjecture. We also show that the fundamental groups of almost all graph manifolds are circularly orderable, and contrast the behaviour of circularly orderability and left-orderability with respect to the operations of Dehn surgery and taking cyclic branched covers.

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