Left-orderable, non-L-space surgeries on knots

DOI10.4310/CAG.2014.V22.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ402733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kimihiko Motegi, Masakazu Teragaito

Publication date 28 August 2014

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5729

zbMATH Keywords

\(L\)-spaceDehn surgeryleft-orderable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (06F15) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

Abstract: Let K be a knot in the 3--sphere. An r-surgery on K is left-orderable if the resulting 3--manifold K(r) of the surgery has left-orderable fundamental group, and an r-surgery on K is called an L-space surgery if K(r) is an L-space. A conjecture of Boyer, Gordon and Watson says that non-reducing surgeries on K can be classified into left-orderable surgeries or L-space surgeries. We introduce a way to provide knots with left-orderable, non-L-space surgeries. As an application we present infinitely many hyperbolic knots on each of which every nontrivial surgery is a hyperbolic, left-orderable, non-L-space surgery.

Review text

In this paper the authors develop a method to construct knots in the 3-sphere admitting Dehn surgeries yielding 3-manifolds with left-orderable fundamental groups (called left-orderable surgeries), but not admitting Dehn surgeries yielding \(L\)-spaces (called \(L\)-space surgeries). This research is related to the famous \(L\)-space conjecture due to Boyer, Gordon, and Watson raised in [\textit{S. Boyer} et al., Math. Ann. 356, No. 4, 1213--1245 (2013; Zbl 1279.57008)]. The conjecture says that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an \(L\)-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Thus it is naturally conjectured that all non-\(L\)-space surgeries are left-orderable surgeries. In this paper, as an application of their construction, the first examples of hyperbolic knots are given such that all the non-trivial surgeries are non-\(L\)-space surgeries, which are left-orderable surgeries (Theorem 1.8). The key of the construction is using periodic knots. Actually, roughly speaking, it is shown that a periodic knot admits left-orderable surgeries if a factor knot does (Theorem 2.1), and that, under certain conditions, periodic knots have no \(L\)-space surgeries (Corollary 3.2).

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