Asymmetric hyperbolic \(L\)-spaces, Heegaard genus, and Dehn filling (Q530619)

An \(L\)-space is a rational homology \(3\)-sphere whose Heegaard Floer homology has rank equal to the order of its first homology group. Lens spaces -- or, more generally, all spherical \(3\)-manifolds -- are typical examples of \(L\)-spaces. Also, the double branched cover of any non-split alternating link is known to be an \(L\)-space, and many other \(L\)-spaces are constructed by Dehn surgery on strongly-invertible knots. Hence all previous examples of \(L\)-spaces have symmetry. The paper under review gives the first examples of \(L\)-spaces without symmetry. Thus these are neither regular covers nor regular branched covers of another \(3\)-manifold. The argument is a combination of hyperbolic geometry, Heegaard Floer homology theory and verified computer calculations. For this purpose, the authors first prove that if a \(1\)-cusped hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold \(M\) is asymmetric and has two lens space Dehn fillings of coprime order, then \(M\) admits infinitely many Dehn fillings which yield asymmetric hyperbolic \(L\)-spaces, and \(M\) is the complement of a fibered knot in an integral homology \(3\)-sphere. Second, such manifolds are obtained from certain Dehn fillings on one component of the two-component link \(L12n1314\) in the Hoste-Thistlethwaite census. As byproduct, these manifolds give \(3\)-manifolds with Heegaard genus three which admit two lens space fillings. That is, these manifolds have multiple fillings dropping the Heegaard genus by more than one.