The Thurston norm and twisted Alexander polynomials
Geometric Topology
2012-06-27 v2
Abstract
Using recent results of Agol, Przytycki-Wise and Wise we show that twisted Alexander polynomials detect the Thurston norm of any irreducible 3-manifold which is not a closed graph manifold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.6456,
title = {The Thurston norm and twisted Alexander polynomials},
author = {Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6456},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
17 pages, updated to reflect new results on 3-manifold groups