The pretzel-knot surgery left-orderability conjecture

Let s3s\ge 3 be an integer, and let Mp/qM_{p/q} be the manifold obtained by Dehn surgery with slope pq\frac{p}{q} along the (2,3,2s+1)(-2,3,2s+1)-pretzel knot. Pretzel-knot surgery conjecture. The fundamental group of Mp/qM_{p/q} is left-orderable if and only if

pq<2s+3.\frac{p}{q}<2s+3.

The paper proves non-left-orderability for slopes pq2s+3\frac{p}{q}\ge 2s+3 and left-orderability in a neighborhood of zero, so the conjecture remains open for the intervening slopes.

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Zipei Nie, “Left-orderablity for surgeries on (-2,3,2s+1)-pretzel knots”, arXiv:1803.00076 (2018).

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