The branched-cover L-space conjecture for prime strongly quasipositive links

Let LL be a link in S3S^3, and for each integer n2n\geq 2 let Σn(L)\Sigma_n(L) denote the canonical nn-fold cyclic cover branched over LL. A link is simply laced arborescent if it is the boundary of an oriented surface obtained by plumbing positive Hopf bands according to one of the simply laced Dynkin diagrams AmA_m (m1m\geq 1), DmD_m (m4m\geq 4), E6E_6, E7E_7, or E8E_8. The branched-cover L-space conjecture. If LL is a prime, fibred, strongly quasipositive link for which some Σn(L)\Sigma_n(L) is an L-space, then LL is simply laced arborescent. This would characterize the prime fibred strongly quasipositive links having an L-space cyclic branched cover; the converse is supplied by the simply laced arborescent examples, whose double branched covers are L-spaces. The conjecture is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Michel Boileau, Steven Boyer and Cameron McA. Gordon, “On definite strongly quasipositive links and L-space branched covers”, arXiv:1811.08862 (2019).

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