Alexander and Thurston norms of fibered 3-manifolds.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2001.200.43zbMATH Open1049.57012OpenAlexW2046860327MaRDI QIDQ700579FDOQ700579

Authors Nathan M. Dunfield 

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908050

zbMATH Keywords

Thurston normAlexander normGassner representations of the braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: For a 3-manifold M, McMullen derived from the Alexander polynomial of M a norm on H^1(M, R) called the Alexander norm. He showed that the Thurston norm on H^1(M, R), which measures the complexity of a dual surface, is an upper bound for the Alexander norm. He asked if these two norms were equal on all of H^1(M,R) when M fibers over the circle. Here, I give examples which show that the answer to this question is emphatically no. This question is related to the faithfulness of the Gassner representations of the braid groups. The key tool used to understand this question is the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant from combinatorial group theory. Theorem 1.7, which is of independant interest, connects the Alexander polynomial with a certain Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant.

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