Heegaard gradient and virtual fibers

DOI10.2140/GT.2005.9.2227MaRDI QIDQ813167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Maher

Publication date 30 January 2006

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411219, https://eudml.org/doc/126727

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard genushyperbolic 3-manifoldvirtual fiber

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that if a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has infinitely many finite covers of bounded Heegaard genus, then it is virtually fibered. This generalizes a theorem of Lackenby, removing restrictions needed about the regularity of the covers. Furthermore, we can replace the assumption that the covers have bounded Heegaard genus with the weaker hypotheses that the Heegaard splittings for the covers have Heegaard gradient zero, and also bounded width, in the sense of Scharlemann-Thompson thin position for Heegaard splittings.

Review text

There are three famous conjectures devoted to the behavior of finite covers of 3-manifolds: the virtually Haken conjecture, the positive virtual \(b_1\) conjecture and the virtually fibered conjecture. In the present excellent paper the author proves that if a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has infinitely many finite covers of bounded Heegaard genus, then it is virtually fibered. One of the main technical tools used in the proof is a generalized sweepout.

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