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 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 verifies the -space conjecture. We also show that if is a 2-bridge knot with , , then the fundamental group of the 5-fold cyclic branched cover of 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}
}
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40 pages, 31 figures