L-spaces, taut foliations and fibered hyperbolic two-bridge links
Geometric Topology
2026-04-08 v1
Abstract
We prove that if is a rational homology sphere that is Dehn surgery on a fibered hyperbolic two-bridge link, then is not an -space if and only if supports a coorientable taut foliation. As a corollary we show that if is obtained by a non-trivial knot as result of an operation called two-bridge replacement, then all non-meridional surgeries on support coorientable taut foliations. This operation generalises Whitehead doubling and as a particular case we deduce that all non-meridional surgeries on Whitehead doubles of a non-trivial knot support coorientable taut foliations.
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@article{arxiv.2304.14914,
title = {L-spaces, taut foliations and fibered hyperbolic two-bridge links},
author = {Diego Santoro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14914},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
49 pages, 35 figures. Comments are welcome! arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2201.01211