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L-space knots are fibered and strongly quasipositive

Geometric Topology 2022-11-02 v1

Abstract

We give a new, conceptually simpler proof of the fact that knots in S3S^3 with positive L-space surgeries are fibered and strongly quasipositive. Our motivation for doing so is that this new proof uses comparatively little Heegaard Floer-specific machinery and can thus be translated to other forms of Floer homology. We carried this out for instanton Floer homology in our recent article "Instantons and L-space surgeries", and used it to generalize Kronheimer and Mrowka's results on SU(2)SU(2) representations of fundamental groups of Dehn surgeries.

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@article{arxiv.1911.01866,
  title  = {L-space knots are fibered and strongly quasipositive},
  author = {John A. Baldwin and Steven Sivek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.01866},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures