The incompressible-torus obstruction to L-spaces

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Let YY be an irreducible homology sphere, and suppose that it contains an incompressible torus, meaning an embedded torus whose inclusion induces an injective map on fundamental groups. Incompressible-torus obstruction conjecture. If YY contains an incompressible torus, then YY is not an L-space. This conjecture would reduce the L-space homology-sphere classification conjecture to the case of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Its general status is open.

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Matthew Hedden and Adam Simon Levine, “Splicing knot complements and bordered Floer homology”, arXiv:1210.7055 (2015).

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