Algebraic fibering is generic for random two-generator one-relator groups with commutator relator

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Let G′(r)\mathcal{G}'(r) denote the random model of two-generator one-relator groups whose defining relation is a commutator, and let prp_r be the probability that a group G∈G′(r)G\in\mathcal{G}'(r) fibers algebraically. Algebraic-fibering conjecture. One has

pr→1as r→∞.p_r\to 1\quad\text{as }r\to\infty.

This contrasts with tunnel number one 3-manifolds with two boundary components, whose fibering probability tends to 00 despite having many epimorphisms to Z\mathbb Z. The source describes the assertion as very likely and gives no proof.

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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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