Bundles, handcuffs, and local freedom (Q1771154)

Andersen asked: Can the fundamental group of a hyperbolic 3-manifold that fibers over the circle contain a subgroup that is locally free and not free? The author answers this question in the affirmative by showing: Theorem 1: There are infinitely many commensurability classes of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds that fiber over the circle whose fundamental groups contain subgroups that are locally free and not free. These manifolds are obtained by performing 0-surgery on certain `handcuff' knots.