Left-orderable surgeries on the knot $6_2$ via hyperbolic $\widetilde{PSL}(2,\mathbb{R})$-representations

Abstract

We introduce a new method of detecting when the fundamental group of a Dehn surgery on a knot admits a left-ordering, a method which is particularly useful for 2-bridge knots. As an illustration of this method, we show that all Dehn surgeries on the knot $6_2$ with slope in the interval $(-4,8)\cap \mathbb{Q}$ have left-orderable fundamental groups by exhibiting a family of hyperbolic $\widetilde{PSL}(2,\mathbb{R})$-representations of the knot complement group.

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