Wrappingness and trunkenness additivity under fibered gluing

Let Y1Y_1 and Y2Y_2 be fibered 3-manifolds with boundary, with fibrations π1:Y1S1\pi_1:Y_1\to S^1 and π2:Y2S1\pi_2:Y_2\to S^1, and glue them along a fibered torus-boundary component to obtain a fibered 3-manifold Y1T2Y2Y_1\cup_{T^2}Y_2 with fibration π:Y1T2Y2S1\pi:Y_1\cup_{T^2}Y_2\to S^1. Let L1Y1L_1\subset Y_1 and L2Y2L_2\subset Y_2 be links, and regard L1L2L_1\cup L_2 as their disjoint union in Y1Y2Y_1\cup Y_2. Wrappingness and trunkenness additivity conjecture. One has

wrap(L1L2,π)=wrap(L1,π1)+wrap(L2,π2),\operatorname{wrap}(L_1\cup L_2,\pi)=\operatorname{wrap}(L_1,\pi_1)+\operatorname{wrap}(L_2,\pi_2),

and

trunk(L1L2,π)=max(trunk(L1,π1)+wrap(L2,π2),wrap(L1,π1)+trunk(L2,π2)).\operatorname{trunk}(L_1\cup L_2,\pi)=\max\left(\operatorname{trunk}(L_1,\pi_1)+\operatorname{wrap}(L_2,\pi_2), \operatorname{wrap}(L_1,\pi_1)+\operatorname{trunk}(L_2,\pi_2)\right).

This conjecture generalizes the stated additivity formula for the trunk of a disjoint union of links in S3S^3. It predicts that wrapping number is additive under this fibered gluing, while trunk is governed by the larger of the two mixed trunk–wrapping sums; the source provides no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Peter Lambert-Cole, “The Wrappingness and Trunkenness of Volume-Preserving Flows”, arXiv:2403.05511 (2024).

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