The slope-set conjecture for taut foliations of knot complements

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3 with Seifert genus g>0g>0. Let SKQ\mathcal{S}_K\subset\mathbb{Q} be the set of rational slopes ss for which there exists a taut C0\mathcal{C}^0-foliation on S3KS^3\setminus K meeting the boundary of a tubular neighborhood of KK transversally in a nonsingular foliation of slope ss. The slope-set conjecture. One has

SK=Q,SK=(,2g1)Q,orSK=(2g+1,+)Q.\mathcal{S}_K=\mathbb{Q},\qquad \mathcal{S}_K=(-\infty,2g-1)\cap\mathbb{Q},\qquad\text{or}\qquad \mathcal{S}_K=(-2g+1,+\infty)\cap\mathbb{Q}.

This is motivated by the LL-space conjecture and Heegaard Floer calculations for Dehn surgeries on knots in S3S^3. The source notes that it is not known whether SK\mathcal{S}_K is an interval in general.

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Thomas Massoni, “Taut foliations and contact pairs in dimension three”, arXiv:2405.15635 (2024).

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