Boyer–Gordon–Watson L-space/non-left-orderability conjecture
Boyer–Gordon–Watson L-space/non-left-orderability conjecture
A nontrivial group is left-orderable if it admits a total ordering invariant under left multiplication. An -space is a rational homology -sphere with minimal Heegaard Floer homology, meaning that . Boyer–Gordon–Watson conjecture. An irreducible rational homology -sphere is an -space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. This conjecture proposes an equivalence between Heegaard Floer-theoretic minimality and an order-theoretic property of the fundamental group; the source applies it to cyclic branched covers of pretzel knots, while its general status is not resolved here.
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Primary source
Lin Li and Zipei Nie, “Non-left-orderability of cyclic branched covers of pretzel knots P(3,-3,-2k-1)”, arXiv:2106.15582 (2021).
Additional references
9 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1911.11745, arXiv:1904.04628, arXiv:1803.00076, arXiv:1711.11389, arXiv:1603.05016, arXiv:1410.1908, arXiv:1211.3066, arXiv:1205.0202.
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