Twisted Alexander polynomials detect fibered 3-manifolds

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2011.173.3.8zbMATH Open1231.57020arXiv0805.1234OpenAlexW2964262556MaRDI QIDQ640774FDOQ640774

Stefano Vidussi, Stefan Friedl

Publication date: 20 October 2011

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A classical result in knot theory says that the Alexander polynomial of a fibered knot is monic and that its degree equals twice the genus of the knot. This result has been generalized by various authors to twisted Alexander polynomials and fibered 3-manifolds. In this paper we show that the conditions on twisted Alexander polynomials are not only necessary but also sufficient for a 3-manifold to be fibered. By previous work of the authors this result implies that if a manifold of the form S^1 x N^3 admits a symplectic structure, then N fibers over S^1. In fact we will completely determine the symplectic cone of S^1 x N in terms of the fibered faces of the Thurston norm ball of N.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1234

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zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldfibered 3-manifoldfinite solvable groupstwisted Alexander polynomialThurston normSeiberg-Witten invariantssymplectic 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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