Torus decomposition and foliation detected slopes

Abstract

Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be knot manifolds and $M=M_1\cup_f M_2$ be the closed 3-manifold obtained by gluing up $M_1$ and $M_2$ via $f:\partial M_1\xrightarrow{\cong} \partial M_2$. We show that if $M$ admits a co-oriented taut foliation, then $f$ identifies some CTF-detected rational boundary slopes of $M_1$ and $M_2$, affirming a conjecture proposed by Boyer, Gordon and Hu.