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L–spaces, taut foliations and the Whitehead link

Diego Santoro

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 24 (2024) 3455–3502
Abstract

We prove that if M is a rational homology sphere that is a Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link, then M is not an L–space if and only if M supports a coorientable taut foliation. The left orderability of some of these manifolds is also proved, by determining which of the constructed taut foliations have vanishing Euler class.

We also present some more general results about the structure of the L–space surgery slopes for links with two unknotted components and linking number zero, and about the existence of taut foliations on the fillings of a k–holed torus bundle over the circle with some prescribed monodromy. Our results, combined with some results of Roberts, Shareshian and Stein (2003), also imply that all the rational homology spheres that arise as integer surgeries on the Whitehead link satisfy the L–space conjecture.

Keywords
L–spaces, taut foliations, Whitehead link, orderability
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 57K10, 57K18, 57K32, 57R30
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Publication
Received: 1 February 2022
Revised: 19 September 2022
Accepted: 24 October 2022
Published: 7 October 2024
Authors
Diego Santoro
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa
Italy

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