Boyer–Gordon–Watson's surgery dichotomy conjecture for non-cable knots
Let be a knot in . Define the sets of left-orderable and -space surgery slopes by
and
A cable of a nontrivial knot is a cable knot whose companion knot is nontrivial.
Boyer–Gordon–Watson's surgery dichotomy conjecture. If is not a cable of a nontrivial knot, then
and
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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