The Thurston norm, fibered manifolds and twisted Alexander polynomials

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2006.06.003zbMATH Open1105.57009OpenAlexW2127734341MaRDI QIDQ853480FDOQ853480

Authors Stefan Friedl, Taehee Kim 

Publication date 15 November 2006

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505594

zbMATH Keywords

twisted Alexander polynomialThurston norm3-manifoldsknot genusfibered knots

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Abstract: Every element in the first cohomology group of a 3--manifold is dual to embedded surfaces. The Thurston norm measures the minimal `complexity' of such surfaces. For instance the Thurston norm of a knot complement determines the genus of the knot in the 3--sphere. We show that the degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials give lower bounds on the Thurston norm, generalizing work of McMullen and Turaev. Our bounds attain their most concise form when interpreted as the degrees of the Reidemeister torsion of a certain twisted chain complex. We show that these lower bounds give the correct genus bounds for all knots with 12 crossings or less, including the Conway knot and the Kinoshita--Terasaka knot which have trivial Alexander polynomial.

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