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Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing; 60th birthday of Jozef H. Przytycki
January 6-9, 2015
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UTD) Tobias Hagge (UTD) Valentina S. Harizanov (GWU) Viswanath Ramakrishna (UTD) Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU) Adam S. Sikora (SUNYUB)

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Left-orderability, taut foliations, and cyclic branched covers
by
Cameron Gordon
University of Texas at Austin

It is conceivable that for a rational homology 3-sphere M, the following are equivalent: (1) pi1(M) is left-orderable, (2) M admits a co-orientable taut foliation, and (3) M is not a Heegaard Floer L-space. We will discuss these properties in the case where M is a cyclic branched cover of a knot in S3. This is joint work with Tye Lidman.

Date received: December 27, 2014

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