Persistent foliar branched surface conjecture for non-L-space knots

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3 that is not an L-space knot, meaning that no nontrivial Dehn surgery on KK yields an L-space. A persistently foliar branched surface in the exterior of KK is a branched surface whose induced structures give taut foliations on all nontrivial Dehn fillings of the exterior. Persistent foliar branched surface conjecture. The exterior of every non-L-space knot in S3S^3 has a persistently foliar branched surface.

This is motivated by announced constructions for alternating and Montesinos knots without L-space surgeries and by the paper’s results for nonalternating knots. Its general status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Nathan M. Dunfield, “Floer homology, group orderability, and taut foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds”, arXiv:1904.04628 (2019).

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