The Thurston norm and twisted Alexander polynomials

2012/04/29 by Friedl, Stefan, Vidussi, Stefano
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.6456

Abstract

Using recent results of Agol, Przytycki-Wise and Wise we show that twisted Alexander polynomials detect the Thurston norm of any irreducible 3-manifold which is not a closed graph manifold.

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