The dual Thurston norm and the geometry of closed 3-manifolds
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The dual Thurston norm and the geometry of closed 3-manifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 1107.57021
author: Mitsuhiro Itoh
author: Takahisa Yamase
published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2006-09-22T00:00:00Z
review text: In this nice paper, the authors characterize Riemannian three manifolds satisfying an extremal condition for norms of monopole classes. Thurston defined a (pseudo-)norm in the first cohomology of a three manifold. It is a norm when the manifold is closed and does not contain tori nor spheres which are non-separating (homologically nontrivial). By Poincaré duality, it induces a dual norm on the second cohomology group with real coefficients. Monopole classes in the second real cohomology group are (complex) Chern classes of \(\text{Spin}^c\) structures which support solutions to the Seiberg-Witten equations. \textit{P. B. Kronheimer} and \textit{T. S. Mrowka} have shown in [Math. Res. Lett. 4, No. 6, 931--937 (1997; Zbl 0892.57011)] that the convex hull of monopole classes is precisely the unit ball of the dual of the Thurston norm. In addition, they have shown that the dual Thurston norm equals the supremum over all metrics of \(4\pi\) times the \(L^2\) norm of the harmonic representative divided by the \(L^2\)-norm of the scalar curvature. In particular, for a monopole class, the \(L^ 2\) norm of the harmonic representative is less than or equal to the \(L^ 2\)-norm of the scalar curvature over \(4\pi\). The main theorem of the paper characterizes when there is equality: when the metric is locally modeled in the product of the hyperbolic plane and \(\mathbb R\). In particular such a manifold is Seifert fibered with trivial rational Euler number.
reviewed by: Joan Porti
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M50
zbMATH DE Number: 5056317
zbMATH Keywords: Seiberg-Witten
zbMATH Keywords: three-manifold
zbMATH Keywords: monopole class
zbMATH Keywords: dual Thurston norm
zbMATH Keywords: \(L^2\) norm
zbMATH Keywords: scalar curvature
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