Taut normal surfaces
Let \(M\) be a compact 3-manifold. Fixing a triangulation \(T\) of \(M\), one can associate a compact, convex, linear cell, \(P_T\), of solutions to the normalized matching equations for \(T\) from normal surface theory. The authors study the faces of \(P_T\) associated to taut normal surfaces having minimal weight. They show that if \(M\) is a compact, oriented 3-manifold which is a connected sum of irreducible 3-manifolds and for which all compressible boundary components are tori, then there is associated to each nontrivial homology class \(f\in H_2(M,\partial M;\mathbb{Z})\) a face of \(P_T\) with some strong properties. They apply this result to the construction of a minimal Seifert surface for a link, a construction of the unit sphere of the Thurston norm, and a study of branched surfaces.
- Taut ideal triangulations of \(3\)-manifolds
- Taut branched surfaces from veering triangulations
- Innermost disk pairs in least weight normal surfaces
- Isotopy classes of incompressible surfaces in irreducible 3-manifolds
- The efficient certification of knottedness and Thurston norm
- Weil-Petersson translation length and manifolds with many fibered fillings
- \(k\)-normal surfaces
- Thurston norm via Fox calculus
- The Regular Projective Solution Space of the Figure-Eight Knot Complement
- Criteria for virtual fibering
- A Survey of the Thurston Norm
- The computational complexity of knot genus in a fixed 3‐manifold
- Normal surfaces minimizing weight in a homology class
- The Thurston norm via spun-normal immersions
- Triangulations of Seifert fibred manifolds
- A random tunnel number one 3-manifold does not fiber over the circle
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