Virtual fibering conjecture for taut sutured manifolds

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Let (M,γ)(M,\gamma) be a taut sutured manifold, meaning a sutured manifold satisfying the tautness condition, and suppose that χ(M)<0\chi(M)<0. A finite-sheeted cover is a covering

(M~,γ~)→(M,γ)(\tilde{M},\tilde{\gamma})\to(M,\gamma)

with finitely many sheets. The virtual fibering conjecture for taut sutured manifolds. There is a finite-sheeted cover (M~,γ~)→(M,γ)(\tilde{M},\tilde{\gamma})\to(M,\gamma) such that (M~,γ~)(\tilde{M},\tilde{\gamma}) has a depth one taut oriented foliation. This is presented as a natural analogue of the virtual fibering conjecture for 3-manifolds; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Ian Agol, “Criteria for virtual fibering”, arXiv:0707.4522 (2008).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2001–2007). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0508294, arXiv:math/0102104.

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