Sutured manifolds and ℓ2-Betti numbers

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAD027MaRDI QIDQ6183310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerrit Herrmann

Publication date 26 January 2024

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09519

zbMATH Keywords

\(l^2\)-Betti numbersutured manifoldtaut sutured manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

Abstract: Using the virtual fibering theorem of Agol we show that a sutured 3-manifold $(M,R_{+},R_{-},gamma)$ is taut if and only if the $el{l}^2$-Betti numbers of the pair $(M,R_{-})$ are zero. As an application we can characterize Thurston norm minimizing surfaces in a 3-manifold $N$ with empty or toroidal boundary by the vanishing of certain $el{l}^2$-Betti numbers.

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