On left-orderable fundamental groups and Dehn surgeries on twist knots

Abstract: We show that the resulting manifold by

r

-surgery on the hyperbolic twist knot

K_{m},, m g e 2

, has left-orderable fundamental group if the slope

r

satisfies the condition

r i n (- 4, 2 m)

if

m

is even, and

r i n [0, 4] c u p (f r a c 4 m o m e g a + 4, 2 m + 4)

if

m

is odd, where

o m e g a > 1

is the unique real solution of the equation

x e^{x} = 4 m

.

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