The L-space conjecture for closed orientable irreducible 3-manifolds
Let be a connected, closed, orientable, irreducible -manifold. A left-orderable group is a group admitting a strict total order invariant under left multiplication, and a co-orientable taut foliation is a co-orientable taut foliation on . The manifold is an L-space if it is a rational homology sphere with the minimal possible Heegaard Floer homology.
L-space conjecture. The following statements are equivalent for : (1) is a non-L-space. (2) is left orderable. (3) admits a co-orientable taut foliation .
The conjecture connects Heegaard Floer homology, left-orderable fundamental groups, and taut foliations. The implication from (3) to (1) is proved by Ozsváth and Szabó, so the equivalence is solved.
References
Primary source
Bojun Zhao, “Left orderability and taut foliations with orderable cataclysm”, arXiv:2210.04719 (2026).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2208.01542, arXiv:2107.09272, arXiv:1912.01645, arXiv:1811.09148.
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