The L-space conjecture for irreducible 3-manifolds

Let MM be a closed, connected, irreducible, orientable 33-manifold. A Heegaard Floer LL-space is a rational homology 33-sphere with minimal Heegaard Floer homology; a co-orientable taut foliation is a taut foliation whose normal bundle is orientable; and a group is left-orderable if it admits a strict total order invariant under left multiplication.

L-space conjecture. The following statements are equivalent:

\text{$M$ is not a Heegaard Floer $L$-space$}, \text{$M$ admits a co-orientable taut foliation$}, π1(M) is left-orderable.\pi_1(M)\text{ is left-orderable}.

This conjecture seeks to relate Heegaard Floer homology, taut foliations, and orderability of fundamental groups. The paper proves it for irreducible 33-manifolds admitting genus-one open book decompositions with connected binding, but it remains open in general.

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Steven Boyer and Ying Hu, “Taut foliations in branched cyclic covers and left-orderable groups”, arXiv:1711.04578 (2019).

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