The low BKL-exponent obstruction conjecture for L-space branched covers
The low BKL-exponent obstruction conjecture for L-space branched covers
Let be a prime, fibred, strongly quasipositive link. Write for its BKL-exponent, defined as the maximum integer such that is the closure of for some , , and BKL-positive braid . Low BKL-exponent obstruction conjecture. If , then no cyclic branched cover is an L-space. Together with the stated characterization of simply laced arborescent links for BKL-exponent at least , 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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