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Thurston norms of tunnel number-one manifolds

Geometric Topology 2024-03-11 v1

Abstract

The Thurston norm of a 3-manifold measures the complexity of surfaces representing two-dimensional homology classes. We study the possible unit balls of Thurston norms of 3-manifolds MM with b1(M)=2b_1(M) = 2, and whose fundamental groups admit presentations with two generators and one relator. We show that even among this special class, there are 3-manifolds such that the unit ball of the Thurston norm has arbitrarily many faces.

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@article{arxiv.1803.05097,
  title  = {Thurston norms of tunnel number-one manifolds},
  author = {Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj and Kevin Schreve and Nicholas G. Vlamis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05097},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures