The co-rank conjecture for 3-manifold groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2002.2.37MaRDI QIDQ5954970zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher J. Leininger, Alan W. Reid

Publication date 7 February 2002

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202261, https://eudml.org/doc/121751, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-4.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifold groupcut-numberco-rank of a group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

Abstract: In this paper we construct explicit examples of both closed and non-compact finite volume hyperbolic manifolds which provide counterexamples to the conjecture that the co-rank of a 3-manifold group (also known as the cut number) is bounded below by one-third the first Betti number.

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