On L-space surgeries on two-bridge links

Abstract

We classify the sets of $L$-space surgeries on all two-bridge links, providing the first examples of hyperbolic links for which such sets cannot be described as unions of finitely many rectangles in ${\mathbb{Q}}^2$. The proof relies on several different techniques, each of which is applicable in greater generality: we introduce a sufficient diagrammatic condition for links in $S^3$ to be persistently foliar, a property that implies that every non-trivial surgery on such links supports a coorientable taut foliation. We define a simplified model for the Heegaard Floer homology of rational surgeries on two-component $L$-space links, following the work of Manolescu-Ozsváth, Liu, and Zemke, and use it to obtain obstructions to $L$-space surgeries. Finally, we use explicit computations of Turaev torsions to determine $L$-space surgeries in the case of generalised $L$-space links. Among the consequences of our results, we obtain an optimal uniform bound on the volume of any hyperbolic $L$-space that is surgery on a two-bridge link, together with a classification of all $L$-space satellite knots whose associated two-component pattern link is a two-bridge link.

101 pages, 35 figures. Comments are welcome!