Random-walk tunnel number one 3-manifolds do not fiber

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Let HH be the handlebody used to construct tunnel number one 3-manifolds, let ∂H\partial H be its boundary, and let MCG(∂H)\mathcal{MCG}(\partial H) be its mapping class group. Choose a finite generating set and form a random walk of length rr, applying its endpoint to a fixed non-separating simple closed curve to obtain the attaching curve and the corresponding manifold MM. Random-walk non-fibering conjecture. The probability that MM fibers over the circle goes to 00 as r→∞r\to\infty. This is a conjectural analogue of the proved result for the measured-lamination model; the paper presents experimental evidence, but no proof is supplied for the mapping-class-group model.

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Nathan M Dunfield and Dylan P Thurston, “A random tunnel number one 3-manifold does not fiber over the circle”, arXiv:math/0510129 (2009).

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