On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups

Details On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups On L-spaces and left-orderable fundamental groups

2011-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/1107.5016v1

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

30 pages, 4 figures, uses colour

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Examples suggest that there is a correspondence between L-spaces and 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups cannot be left-ordered. In this paper we establish the equivalence of these conditions for several large classes of such manifolds. In particular, we prove that they are equivalent for any closed, connected, orientable, geometric 3-manifold that is non-hyperbolic, a family which includes all closed, connected, orientable Seifert fibred spaces. We also show that they are equivalent for the 2-fold branched covers of non-split alternating links. To do this we prove that the fundamental group of the 2-fold branched cover of an alternating link is left-orderable if and only if it is a trivial link with two or more components. We also show that this places strong restrictions on the representations of the fundamental group of an alternating knot complement with values in Homeo_+(S^1).

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