## Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

### On left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings

Anh T. TRAN

#### Abstract

In a recent paper, Y. Hu has given a sufficient condition for the fundamental group of the $r$-th cyclic branched covering of $S^3$ along a prime knot to be left-orderable in terms of representations of the knot group. Applying her criterion to a large class of two-bridge knots, we determine a range of integers $r > 1$ for which the $r$-th cyclic branched covering of $S^3$ along the knot is left-orderable.

#### Article information

Source
J. Math. Soc. Japan, Volume 67, Number 3 (2015), 1169-1178.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 August 2015

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1438777445

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2969/jmsj/06731169

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3376583

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1328.57017

Subjects
Primary: 57M27: Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds

#### Citation

TRAN, Anh T. On left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings. J. Math. Soc. Japan 67 (2015), no. 3, 1169--1178. doi:10.2969/jmsj/06731169. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1438777445

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