English

L-spaces, left-orderability and two-bridge knots

Geometric Topology 2018-01-10 v1

Abstract

We show that the 3-fold cyclic branched cover of any genus 2 two-bridge knot K[2q,2s,2t,2l]K_{[-2q,2s,-2t,2l]} is an L-space and its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Therefore the family of 3-fold cyclic branched cover of any genus 2 two-bridge knot K[2q,2s,2t,2l]K_{[-2q,2s,-2t,2l]} verifies the LL-space conjecture. We also show that if K[2k,2l]K_{[2k,-2l]} is a 2-bridge knot with k2k\geq 2, l>0l>0, then the fundamental group of the 5-fold cyclic branched cover of K[2k,2l]K_{[2k,-2l]} is not left-orderable, which will complete the proof that the fundamental group of the 5-fold cyclic branched cover of any genus one two-bridge knot is not left-orderable.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02692,
  title  = {L-spaces, left-orderability and two-bridge knots},
  author = {Idrissa Ba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02692},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

40 pages, 31 figures

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