English

Genus one open books with non-left-orderable fundamental group

Geometric Topology 2011-09-23 v1

Abstract

Let YY be a closed, connected, orientable three-manifold admitting a genus one open book decomposition with one boundary component. We prove that if YY is an L-space, then the fundamental group of YY is not left-orderable. This answers a question posed by John Baldwin.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.4870,
  title  = {Genus one open books with non-left-orderable fundamental group},
  author = {Yu Li and Liam Watson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4870},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures