The low BKL-exponent obstruction conjecture for L-space branched covers

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Let LL be a prime, fibred, strongly quasipositive link. Write k(L)k(L) for its BKL-exponent, defined as the maximum integer kk such that LL is the closure of δnkP\delta_n^kP for some n≥2n\geq 2, k≥0k\geq 0, and BKL-positive braid P∈BnP\in B_n. Low BKL-exponent obstruction conjecture. If k(L)≤1k(L)\leq 1, then no cyclic branched cover Σn(L)\Sigma_n(L) is an L-space. Together with the stated characterization of simply laced arborescent links for BKL-exponent at least 22, this would prove the broader conjectural classification of prime fibred strongly quasipositive links with an L-space cyclic branched cover. The supplied text does not resolve this case.

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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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