Boyer–Gordon–Watson's surgery dichotomy conjecture for non-cable knots

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Let KK be a knot in S3S^3. Define the sets of left-orderable and LL-space surgery slopes by

SLO(K)={r∈Q∣π1(K(r)) is left-orderable},\mathcal{S}_{LO}(K)=\{r\in\mathbb{Q}\mid \pi_1(K(r))\text{ is left-orderable}\},

and

SL(K)={r∈Q∣K(r) is an L-space}.\mathcal{S}_{L}(K)=\{r\in\mathbb{Q}\mid K(r)\text{ is an }L\text{-space}\}.

A cable of a nontrivial knot is a cable knot whose companion knot is nontrivial.

Boyer–Gordon–Watson's surgery dichotomy conjecture. If KK is not a cable of a nontrivial knot, then

SLO(K)∪SL(K)=Q\mathcal{S}_{LO}(K)\cup\mathcal{S}_{L}(K)=\mathbb{Q}

and

SLO(K)∩SL(K)=∅.\mathcal{S}_{LO}(K)\cap\mathcal{S}_{L}(K)=\emptyset.

Thus every surgery slope belongs to exactly one of the two sets for a non-cable knot. The conjecture is motivated by the proposed L-space/left-orderability correspondence and remains open in the source.

References

Primary source

Kimihiko Motegi and Masakazu Teragaito, “Left-orderable, non-L-space surgeries on knots”, arXiv:1301.5729 (2013).

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