The ADE Link Conjecture for cyclic branched covers
Let be a prime, fibred, strongly quasipositive link, and let denote a cyclic branched cover of . Write for the property of not being an -space, for having left-orderable fundamental group, and for supporting a co-orientable taut foliation. An link is the boundary of a plumbing of positive Hopf bands according to one of the Dynkin diagrams , , , , or .
The Link Conjecture. If is not an link, then all cyclic branched covers of are , , and .
The conjecture extends the established -link results beyond Seifert links; the source presents it as an aim whose toroidal and hyperbolic cases remain to be proved.
References
Primary source
Steven Boyer, Cameron McA. Gordon and Ying Hu, “Cyclic branched covers of Seifert links and properties related to the ADE link conjecture”, arXiv:2402.15914 (2024).
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