Dunfield's orderable Dehn filling conjecture for two-bridge knots

Let KK be a two-bridge knot, and suppose that its Alexander polynomial has a root p0p_0. Let S1S_1 and S2S_2 be slopes of incompressible surfaces associated to ideal points of the PSL2C\operatorname{PSL}_2\mathbb{C} character variety of the complement of KK. For some odd integer kk satisfying 0<k2g(K)10<k\leq 2g(K)-1, define

I={(S1,S2)if p0>0,(,k)if p0 is a unit complex number.I=\begin{cases} (-S_1,-S_2) & \text{if }p_0>0,\\ (-\infty,k) & \text{if }p_0\text{ is a unit complex number}. \end{cases}

Dunfield's conjecture. For every rational slope rIr\in I, Dehn filling KK along slope rr is orderable.

This conjecture connects orderability of Dehn fillings of two-bridge knots with slopes arising from ideal points of the character variety. The source presents it as a conjecture motivated by the observed relationship between holonomy extension loci and incompressible-surface boundary slopes; its resolution status is not specified here.

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Xinghua Gao, “Slope of Orderable Dehn Filling of Two-Bridge Knots”, arXiv:1912.07468 (2022).

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