2022/06/02 by Steven Boyer, Adam Clay, Boyer, Steven +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Medicine · #06F15 #57M05 #57M99 #Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.00848
openalex publication_date 2022/06/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Motivated by the L-space conjecture, we investigate various notions of order-detection of slopes on knot manifolds. These notions are designed to characterise when rational homology 3-spheres obtained by gluing compact manifolds along torus boundary components have left-orderable fundamental groups and when a Dehn filling of a knot manifold has a left-orderable fundamental group. Our developments parallel existing results in the case of Heegaard-Floer slope detection and foliation slope detection, leading to several conjectured structure theorems that connect relative Heegaard-Floer homology and the boundary behaviour of co-oriented taut foliations with the set of left-orders supported by the fundamental group of a 3-manifold. The dynamics of the actions of 3-manifold groups on the real line plays a key role in our constructions and proofs. Our analysis leads to conjectured dynamical constraints on such actions in the case where the underlying manifold is Floer simple.