JSJ decompositions of knot exteriors, Dehn surgery and the L-space conjecture

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Authors: Steven Boyer, Cameron McA. Gordon, Ying Hu 

Abstract: In this article, we apply slope detection techniques to study properties of toroidal $3$-manifolds obtained by performing Dehn surgeries on satellite knots in the context of the $L$-space conjecture. We show that if $K$ is an $L$-space knot or admits an irreducible rational surgery with non-left-orderable fundamental group, then the JSJ graph of its exterior is a rooted interval. Consequently, any rational surgery on a composite knot has a left-orderable fundamental group. This is the left-orderable counterpart of Krcatovich's result on the primeness of $L$-space knots, which we reprove using our methods. Analogous results on the existence of co-orientable taut foliations are proved when the knot has a fibred companion. Our results suggest a new approach to establishing the counterpart of Krcatovich's result for surgeries with co-orientable taut foliations, on which partial results have been achieved by Delman and Roberts. Finally, we prove results on left-orderable $p/q$-surgeries on knots with $|p|$ small.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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