Graph manifolds, left-orderability and amalgamation (Q351698)

It is known that a right-lattice-ordered group is a general framework for some important groups. Left-ordered groups should be interesting, too. In the paper under review, the authors show that every irreducible toroidal integer homology sphere graph manifold has a left-orderable fundamental group. This is established by way of a specialization of a result due to Bludov and Glass for amalgamated products. Their result then depends on known relations between the topology of Seifert fibred spaces and the orderability of their fundamental groups.