Gordon–Lidman conjecture on cyclic branched covers of satellite knots
Gordon–Lidman conjecture on cyclic branched covers of satellite knots
Let be a prime satellite knot in , and for each positive integer let denote the -fold cyclic branched cover of branched over . A Gordon–Lidman conjecture. Every cyclic branched cover is excellent. Here, excellent means that the manifold is neither an -space nor has a non-left-orderable fundamental group, in the terminology used for cyclic branched covers; the statement is presented as an expected generalization of known results for torus knots, and its resolution is not supplied in the source.
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Primary source
Steven Boyer, Cameron McA Gordon and Ying Hu, “Slope detection and toroidal 3-manifolds”, arXiv:2106.14378 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1711.04578.
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