English

L-spaces, taut foliations and fibered hyperbolic two-bridge links

Geometric Topology 2026-04-08 v1

Abstract

We prove that if MM is a rational homology sphere that is Dehn surgery on a fibered hyperbolic two-bridge link, then MM is not an LL-space if and only if MM supports a coorientable taut foliation. As a corollary we show that if KK' is obtained by a non-trivial knot KK as result of an operation called two-bridge replacement, then all non-meridional surgeries on KK' 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