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.
References
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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