English

Euler class of taut foliations and Dehn filling

Geometric Topology 2022-01-25 v3

Abstract

In this article, we study the Euler class of taut foliations on the Dehn fillings of a Q\mathbb{Q}-homology solid torus. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the Euler class of a foliation transverse to the core of the filling solid torus to vanish. We apply this condition to taut foliations on Dehn fillings of hyperbolic fibered manifolds and obtain many new left-orderable Dehn filling slopes on these manifolds. For instance, we show that when XX is the exterior of a pretzel knot P(2,3,2r+1)P(-2,3,2r+1), r3r\geq 3, π1(X(αn))\pi_1(X(\alpha_n)) is left-orderable for a sequence of positive slopes αn\alpha_n with α0=2g2\alpha_0 =2g-2 and αn2g1\alpha_n\to 2g-1. Lastly, we prove that given any Q\mathbb{Q}-homology solid torus, the set of slopes for which the corresponding Dehn fillings admit a taut foliation transverse to the core with zero Euler class is nowhere dense in R{10}\mathbb{R}\cup \{\frac{1}{0}\}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.01645,
  title  = {Euler class of taut foliations and Dehn filling},
  author = {Ying Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01645},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages, 5 figures; Final version, to appear in Comm. Anal. Geom