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Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2010-06-29 v2

Abstract

We study the large-scale geometry of 3-manifolds with nontrivial 2-dimensional bounded cohomology, with a view to proving a weak version of the geometrization conjecture for such manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.math/0111270,
  title  = {Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds},
  author = {Danny Calegari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111270},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author. Paper incomplete; superseded by later developments (e.g Perelman's unconditional proof of geometrization)