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Infinite families of non-left-orderable L-spaces

Geometric Topology 2021-11-29 v2

Abstract

For each connected alternating tangle, we provide an infinite family of non-left-orderable L-spaces. This gives further support for Conjecture [3] of Boyer, Gordon, and Watson that is a rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if it is non-left-orderable. These 3-manifolds are obtained as Dehn fillings of the double branched covering of any alternating encircled tangle. We give a presentation of these non-left-orderable L-spaces as double branched coverings of S^3, branched over some specified links that turn out to be hyperbolic. We show that the obtained families include many non-Seifert fibered spaces. We also show that these families include many Seifert fibered spaces and give a surgery description for some of them. In the process we give another way to prove that the torus knots T(2, 2m+1) are L-space-knots as has already been shown by Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o in [24].

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@article{arxiv.2104.14930,
  title  = {Infinite families of non-left-orderable L-spaces},
  author = {Hamid Abchir and Mohammed Sabak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.14930},
  year   = {2021}
}

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25 pages, 26 figures