The symplectic product conjecture for closed 3-manifolds

Let NN be a closed 33--manifold. The symplectic product conjecture. If S1×NS^1 \times N is symplectic, then there exists a ϕH1(N;Z)\phi \in H^1(N;\mathbb{Z}) such that (N,ϕ)(N,\phi) fibers over S1S^1. This asks whether the converse of Thurston's implication from fiberedness of a 3-manifold to symplecticity of its product with S1S^1 holds; the source presents it as a problem, and no resolution is given here.

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Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi, “Twisted Alexander polynomials detect fibered 3-manifolds”, arXiv:0805.1234 (2010).

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