The finiteness of the mapping class group for atoroidal \(3\)-manifolds with genuine laminations (Q1807881)

Essential laminations were introduced by \textit{D. Gabai} and \textit{U.Oertel} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 130, No. 1, 41-73 (1989; Zbl 0685.57007)] in order to generalize the notion of taut foliation and incompressible surface. A genuine lamination \(\lambda\) is an essential lamination such that some closed complementary region is not an \(I\)-bundle. The main result of the article establishes that if \(M\) is an atoroidal 3-manifold that contains a genuine lamination, then the mapping class group \({\mathcal M}(M) = \text{Homeo} (M) / \text{Homeo}_0 (M)\) is finite. The proof is done for the assumption that \(M\) is not Haken since this case was proved by \textit{K. Johannson} [Homotopy equivalences of 3-manifolds with boundaries, Lect. Notes Math. 761 (1979; Zbl 0412.57007); see also ``On the mapping class group of simple 3-manifolds'', in `Topology of low-dimensional manifolds', Proc. 2nd Sussex Conf. 1977, Lect. Notes Math. 722, 48-66 (1979; Zbl 0411.57009)].