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Left-orderable fundamental group and Dehn surgery on twist knots

Geometric Topology 2013-01-01 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

For any hyperbolic twist knot in the 3-sphere, we show that the resulting manifold by rr-surgery on the knot has left-orderable fundamental group if the slope rr satisfies the inequality 0r40\le r \le 4.

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@article{arxiv.1212.6305,
  title  = {Left-orderable fundamental group and Dehn surgery on twist knots},
  author = {Ryoto Hakamata and Masakazu Teragaito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6305},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures