The L-space conjecture for closed orientable irreducible 3-manifolds

Let MM be a connected, closed, orientable, irreducible 33-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 MM. The manifold MM 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 MM: (1) MM is a non-L-space. (2) π1(M)\pi_1(M) is left orderable. (3) MM admits a co-orientable taut foliation F\mathcal{F}.

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.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

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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