Alternating links and left-orderability

DOI10.1090/PROC/13704zbMATH Open1385.57001arXiv1107.5232OpenAlexW2963750230MaRDI QIDQ4609852FDOQ4609852

Authors: Joshua Evan Greene 

Publication date: 26 March 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let L subset S^3 denote an alternating link and Sigma(L) its branched double-cover. We give a short proof of the fact that the fundamental group of Sigma(L) admits a left-ordering iff L is an unlink. This result is originally due to Boyer-Gordon-Watson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5232

Recommendations

• On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups
• Non-left-orderable double branched coverings
• On left-orderability and double branched covers of Kanenobu's knots
• On left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings
• Left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupleft-ordering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Cites Work

• On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups
• On the Heegaard Floer homology of branched double-covers
• Graph manifolds, left-orderability and amalgamation
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Strong L-spaces and left-orderability
• Left-orderable fundamental groups and Dehn surgery
• A spanning tree model for the Heegaard Floer homology of a branched double-cover
• On cabled knots, Dehn surgery, and left-orderable fundamental groups
• Non-left-orderable double branched coverings
• Strong Heegaard diagrams and strong L-spaces
• Genus one open books with non-left-orderable fundamental group

Cited In (13)

• Non-left-orderable double branched coverings
• Genus one open books with non-left-orderable fundamental group
• On left-orderability and double branched covers of Kanenobu's knots
• Invariant ordering of groups and topology
• On left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings
• Almost alternating links
• On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups
• Infinite families of non-left-orderable \(L\)-spaces
• Alternating links have representativity 2
• A NEW PROOF THAT ALTERNATING LINKS ARE NON-TRIVIAL
• Left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings
• Taut foliations, left-orderability, and cyclic branched covers
• Strong L-spaces and left-orderability

This page was built for publication: Alternating links and left-orderability

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4609852)