arXiv research

(1,1) non-L-space knots are foliar in 3D space.

Paper tackles $L$-space conjecture for knot manifolds, proving equivalence for some properties.

The paper explores circular orderability in 3-manifold groups, related to the L-space conjecture.

The study confirms conjectures about slopes of knots using knot Floer homology.

We describe necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot in an L-space to have an L-space homology sphere surgery. We use these conditions to reformulate a conjecture of Berge about which knots in S^3 admit lens space surgeries.

Toroidal 3-manifolds have special group structures that can be shown through specific covers.

An oriented three-manifold with torus boundary admits either no L-space Dehn filling, a unique L-space filling, or an interval of L-space fillings. In the latter case, which we call "Floer simple," we construct an invariant which computes the interval of L-space filling slopes from the Turaev torsion and a given slope …

Study positive braid knots and their taut foliations, proving some L-space conjecture evidence.

Study of knot surgeries and JSJ decompositions to tackle $L$-space conjecture.

An L-space link is a link in $S^3$ on which all sufficiently large integral surgeries are L-spaces. We prove that for m, n relatively prime, the r-component cable link $K_{rm,rn}$ is an L-space link if and only if K is an L-space knot and $n/m \geq 2g(K)-1$. We also compute HFL-minus and HFL-hat of an L-space cable lin…

Two knots with unique surgery properties.

Conjecturally, there are only finitely many Heegaard Floer L-space knots in $S^3$ of a given genus. We examine this conjecture for twist families of knots $\{K_n\}$ obtained by twisting a knot $K$ in $S^3$ along an unknot $c$ in terms of the linking number $ω$ between $K$ and $c$. We establish the conjecture in case of…

Boyer, Gordon, and Watson have conjectured that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Since large classes of L-spaces can be produced from Dehn surgery on knots in the 3-sphere, it is natural to ask what conditions on the knot group are suffi…

We construct taut foliations in every closed 3-manifold obtained by $r$-framed Dehn surgery along a positive 3-braid knot $K$ in $S^3$, where $r < 2g(K)-1$ and $g(K)$ denotes the Seifert genus of $K$. This confirms a prediction of the L-space Conjecture. For instance, we produce taut foliations in every non-L-space obt…

Using Hirasawa-Murasugi's classification of fibered Montesinos knots we classify the L-space Montesinos knots, providing further evidence towards a conjecture of Lidman-Moore that L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres. In the process, we classify the fibered Montesinos knots whose open books support the tight …

Boyer, Gordon, and Watson have conjectured that an irreducible rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only if its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Since Dehn surgeries on knots in $S^3$ can produce large families of L-spaces, it is natural to examine the conjecture on these 3-manifolds. Greene, Lewalle…

New findings restrict Heegaard Floer homology for certain rational homology spheres.

Study concordance of alternating torus knots to L-space knots.

Study extends contact cosmetic surgeries to non-trivial Legendrian knots in L-spaces.

Formula for Casson-Walker invariant; applies to knot complements and cosmetic crossing conjecture.

Let K be a knot in the 3--sphere. An r-surgery on K is left-orderable if the resulting 3--manifold K(r) of the surgery has left-orderable fundamental group, and an r-surgery on K is called an L-space surgery if K(r) is an L-space. A conjecture of Boyer, Gordon and Watson says that non-reducing surgeries on K can be cla…

We will prove that, for a $2$ or $3$ component $L$-space link, $HFL^-$ is completely determined by the multi-variable Alexander polynomial of all the sub-links of $L$, as well as the pairwise linking numbers of all the components of $L$. We will also give some restrictions on the multi-variable Alexander polynomial of …

Study shows inequality in Floer homologies for 3-manifold covers.

Proves left-orderability of certain Dehn fillings on 3-manifolds.

The cosmetic crossing conjecture (also known as the "nugatory crossing conjecture") asserts that the only crossing changes that preserve the oriented isotopy class of a knot in the 3-sphere are nugatory. We use the Dehn surgery characterization of the unknot to prove this conjecture for knots in integer homology sphere…

The study connects twist positivity to L-space knots and concordance.

We find braid positive presentations for most L-space knots, except one, and explore related knot properties.

New foliations show knot meridians are detectable.

Floer homology detects taut foliations in rational homology spheres.

Detect slopes in toroidal 3-manifolds to prove properties of fundamental groups.

Proves special alternating knots can't have cosmetic crossings.

Alexander polynomial condition blocks crossing changes in some knots.

The paper finds infinite families of non-left-orderable L-spaces from tangles.

Whitehead link surgeries are not L-spaces if they support taut foliations.

Formula for τ-invariant of satellite knots derived from L-space satellite operators.

Study on periodic knots, proving limitations on their Alexander polynomials.

We prove that the link of a complex normal surface singularity is an L--space if and only if the singularity is rational. This via a recent result of Hanselman, J. Rasmussen, S. D. Rasmussen and Watson (proving the conjecture of Boyer, Gordon and Watson), shows that a singularity link is not rational if and only if its…

Study shows 3D shapes can't fit in certain 4D spaces.

Cables of L-space knots have multiplicative knot Floer order.

The paper explores nonexistence and existence of symplectic and Stein fillable contact structures on 3-manifolds.

We show that the 3-fold cyclic branched cover of any genus 2 two-bridge knot $K_{[-2q,2s,-2t,2l]}$ is an L-space and its fundamental group is not left-orderable. Therefore the family of 3-fold cyclic branched cover of any genus 2 two-bridge knot $K_{[-2q,2s,-2t,2l]}$ verifies the $L$-space conjecture. We also show that…

Study on reducing surgeries on knots, developing thickness and genus bounds.

The article proves properties of Seifert links and their cyclic branched covers.

We prove that if positive integer p-surgery along a knot K \subset S^3 produces an L-space and it bounds a sharp 4-manifold, then the knot genus obeys the bound 2g(K) -1 \leq p - \sqrt{3p+1}. Moreover, there exists an infinite family of pairs (K_n,p_n) attaining this bound, where K_n denotes an n-fold iterated cable of…

New proof shows most thin knots satisfy Cabling Conjecture.

We show the existence of hyperbolic 4-manifolds with vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants, addressing a conjecture of Claude LeBrun. This is achieved by showing, using results in geometric and arithmetic group theory, that certain hyperbolic 4-manifolds contain L-spaces as hypersurfaces.

Given an $n$-component link $L$ in any 3-manifold $M$, the space $\mathcal{L} \subset (\mathbb{Q}\cup \mkern-1.5mu\{\infty\})^n$ of rational surgery slopes yielding L-spaces is already fully characterized (in joint work by the author) when $n\!=\!1$ and $\mathcal{L}$ is nontrivial. For $n\mkern-2mu>\mkern-3mu1$, howeve…

New foliations constructed from contact pairs, revealing flexible taut foliations.