Dodecahedral L-spaces and hyperbolic 4-manifolds

Abstract

We prove that exactly 6 out of the 29 rational homology 3-spheres tessellated by four or less right-angled hyperbolic dodecahedra are L-spaces. The algorithm used is based on the L-space census provided by Dunfield in arXiv:1904.04628, and relies on a result by Rasmussen-Rasmussen arXiv:1508.05900. We use the existence of these manifolds together with a result of Martelli arXiv:1510.06325 to construct explicit examples of hyperbolic 4-manifolds containing separating L-spaces, and therefore having vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants. This answers a question asked by Agol and Lin in arXiv:1812.06536.