Reidemeister torsion, the Thurston norm and Harvey's invariants

DOI10.2140/PJM.2007.230.271MaRDI QIDQ952942zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Friedl

Publication date 14 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508648

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Reidemeister torsionThurston norm3-manifoldsknot genus

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Abstract: Recently twisted and higher order Alexander polynomials were used by Cochran, Harvey, Friedl--Kim and Turaev to give lower bounds on the Thurston norm. We first show how Reidemeister torsion relates to these Alexander polynomials. We then give lower bounds on the Thurston norm in terms of the Reidemeister torsion which contain and extend all the above lower bounds and give an elegant reformulation of the bounds of Cochran, Harvey and Turaev. The Reidemeister torsion approach also gives a natural approach to proving and extending certain monotonicity results of Cochran and Harvey.

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