The L-space conjecture for 3-manifolds

Let YY be a closed, connected 33-manifold. A group is left-orderable if it is nontrivial and admits a total order invariant under left multiplication, and YY is an L-space if its Heegaard Floer homology satisfies HF^(Y)ZH1(Y;Z)\widehat{\operatorname{HF}}(Y)\cong\mathbb{Z}^{\lvert H_1(Y;\mathbb{Z})\rvert}. The L-space conjecture.

π1(Y) is not left-orderable if and only if Y is an L-space.\pi_{1}(Y)\text{ is not left-orderable if and only if }Y\text{ is an L-space}.

This conjecture proposes an equivalence between an algebraic property of the fundamental group and the simplest possible Heegaard Floer homology for a closed, connected 33-manifold. It is closely related to the existence of taut foliations and is motivated by established results connecting left-orderability, foliations, and Heegaard Floer theory; its general validity remains open.

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Adam Simon Levine and Sam Lewallen, “Strong L-spaces and left orderability”, arXiv:1110.0563 (2011).

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