The branched-cover L-space conjecture for prime strongly quasipositive links
The branched-cover L-space conjecture for prime strongly quasipositive links
Let be a link in , and for each integer let denote the canonical -fold cyclic cover branched over . 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 (), (), , , or . The branched-cover L-space conjecture. If is a prime, fibred, strongly quasipositive link for which some is an L-space, then 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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