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Boyer, Gordon, and Watson have conjectured that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Since large classes of L-spaces can be produced from Dehn surgery on knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Katherine Christianson , Justin Goluboff , Linus Hamann , Srikar Varadaraj

For a large class of 3-manifolds with taut foliations, we construct an action of $\pi_1(M)$ on $\mathbb{R}$ by orientation preserving homeomorphisms which captures the transverse geometry of the leaves. This action is complementary to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-01 Jonathan Zung

Motivated by the recent result that left-orderability of a group $G$ is intimately connected to circular orderability of direct products $G \times \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, we provide necessary and sufficient cohomological conditions that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Adam Clay , Tyrone Ghaswala

We consider a class of manifolds with torus boundary admitting bordered Heegaard Floer homology of a particularly simple form, namely, the type D structure may be described graphically by a disjoint union of loops. We develop a calculus for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jonathan Hanselman , Liam Watson

For an oriented irreducible 3-manifold M with non-empty toroidal boundary, we describe how sutured Floer homology ($SFH$) can be used to determine all fibered classes in $H^1(M)$. Furthermore, we show that the $SFH$ of a balanced sutured…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Irida Altman , Stefan Friedl , András Juhász

We introduce the notion of a strong L-space, a closed, oriented rational homology 3-sphere whose Heegaard Floer homology can be determined at the chain level. We prove that the fundamental group of a strong L-space is not left-orderable.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-02 Adam Simon Levine , Sam Lewallen

We show that if a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with a single torus boundary admits two Dehn fillings at distance 5, each of which contains an essential torus, then $M$ is a rational homology solid torus, which is not large in the sense of Wu.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masakazu Teragaito

We provide a new obstruction for a rational homology 3-sphere to arise by Dehn surgery on a given knot in the 3-sphere. The obstruction takes the form of an inequality involving the genus of the knot, the surgery coefficient, and a count of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Stanislav Jabuka

It has been recently conjectured by Boyer-Gordon-Watson that a closed, orientable, irreducible $3$-manifold $M$ is a Heegaard Floer $L$-space if and only if $\pi_1(M)$ is not left-orderable. In this article, we study this conjecture from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Mauro Mauricio

For a compact, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold with toroidal boundary that is not the product of a torus and an interval or a cable space, each boundary torus has a finite set of slopes such that, if avoided, the Thurston norm of a Dehn…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Kenneth L. Baker , Scott A. Taylor

We apply representation theory to study the homology of equivariant Dehn-fillings of a given finite, regular cover of a compact 3-manifold with boundary a torus. This yields a polynomial which gives the rank of the part of the homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Daryl Cooper , Genevieve S Walsh

Examples suggest that there is a correspondence between L-spaces and 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups cannot be left-ordered. In this paper we establish the equivalence of these conditions for several large classes of such manifolds. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Steven Boyer , Cameron McA. Gordon , Liam Watson

We study the left-orderability of the fundamental groups of cyclic branched covers of links which admit co-oriented taut foliations. In particular we do this for cyclic branched covers of fibred knots in integer homology $3$-spheres and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Steven Boyer , Ying Hu

In this paper we study the left-orderability of $3$-manifold groups using an enhancement, called recalibration, of Calegari and Dunfield's "flipping" construction, used for modifying $\mbox{Homeo}_+(S^1)$-representations of the fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Steven Boyer , Cameron McA. Gordon , Ying Hu

Let $M$ be a simple 3-manifold with a toral boundary component. It is known that if two Dehn fillings on $M$ along the boundary produce a reducible manifold and a toroidal manifold, then the distance between the filling slopes is at most…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sangyop Lee , Seungsang Oh , Masakazu Teragaito

We give sufficient conditions for left- and bi-orderability of fundamental groups of Ore categories in terms of indirect factors, including Thompson groups and many of their generalizations. Besides recovering known results, we prove that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Davide Perego , Matteo Tarocchi

We investigate the orderability properties of fundamental groups of 3-dimensional manifolds. Many 3-manifold groups support left-invariant orderings, including all compact P^2-irreducible manifolds with positive first Betti number. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steven Boyer , Dale Rolfsen , Bert Wiest

In this article, we construct infinitely many (small Seifert fibred, hyperbolic and toroidal) rational homology $3$-spheres that admit co-orientable taut foliations, but none with vanishing Euler class. In the context of the $L$-space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Steven Boyer , Cameron McA. Gordon , Ying Hu , Duncan McCoy

A graph manifold rational homology $3$-sphere $W$ with a left-orderable fundamental group admits a co-oriented taut foliation, though it is unknown whether it admits a smooth co-oriented taut foliation. In this paper we extend the gluing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Steven Boyer , Adam Clay

The $L$-space conjecture asserts the equivalence, for prime 3-manifolds, of three properties: not being an $L$-space, having a left-orderable fundamental group, and admitting a co-oriented taut foliation. We investigate these properties for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Steven Boyer , Cameron McA Gordon , Ying Hu