A random tunnel number one 3-manifold does not fiber over the circle

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.2431zbMATH Open1139.57018arXivmath/0510129OpenAlexW3100294251MaRDI QIDQ860185FDOQ860185

Authors: Nathan M. Dunfield, Dylan P. Thurston 

Publication date: 23 January 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the question: how common is it for a 3-manifold to fiber over the circle? One motivation for considering this is to give insight into the fairly inscrutable Virtual Fibration Conjecture. For the special class of 3-manifolds with tunnel number one, we provide compelling theoretical and experimental evidence that fibering is a very rare property. Indeed, in various precise senses it happens with probability 0. Our main theorem is that this is true for a measured lamination model of random tunnel number one 3-manifolds. The first ingredient is an algorithm of K Brown which can decide if a given tunnel number one 3-manifold fibers over the circle. Following the lead of Agol, Hass and W Thurston, we implement Brown's algorithm very efficiently by working in the context of train tracks/interval exchanges. To analyze the resulting algorithm, we generalize work of Kerckhoff to understand the dynamics of splitting sequences of complete genus 2 interval exchanges. Combining all of this with a "magic splitting sequence" and work of Mirzakhani proves the main theorem. The 3-manifold situation contrasts markedly with random 2-generator 1-relator groups; in particular, we show that such groups "fiber" with probability strictly between 0 and 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510129

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zbMATH Keywords

one-relator groupstunnel numberinterval exchangesrandom 3-manifoldsvirtual fibration conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

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Uses Software

• SnapPea
• Knotscape
• Heegaard

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