Coverings of Dehn fillings of surface bundles. II (Q1111198)

This paper is a continuation of the previous paper of the author [Topology Appl. 24, 157-170 (1986; Zbl 0609.57006)] in the study of those 3-manifolds which are obtained by Dehn filling on a surface bundle over \(S^ 1\) and directed toward the question: which 3-manifolds have a virtually \({\mathbb{Z}}\)-representable fundamental group (have a subgroup of finite index which maps onto the infinite cyclic group \({\mathbb{Z}})?\) The author notes that \(\beta_ 1(N)-\beta_ 0(\partial N)\) is a lower bound for \(\{\beta_ 1(M):\) M is a Dehn filling of \(N\}\) and shows that any excess over this lower bound occurs only when the filling parametes include the boundary curves of an incompressible, boundary incompressible surface in N. For any knot k in \(S^ 3\) which is invariant under an orientation reversing involution \(\tau\) of \(S^ 3\) with Fix \(\tau\) \(\subset k\), and for a branched cover \(\tilde M\) of \(S^ 3\) branched over k, the author shows that there is an orientation reversing involution on \(\tilde M\) covering \(\tau\) if and only if the monodromy representation \(\pi_ 1(S^ 3-k)\to S_ q\) of \(\tilde M\) factors through \(\pi_ 1((S^ 3-k)/\tau)\). And he applies this to several general classes of branched coverings of \(S^ 3\) branched over the figure eight knot.