The Tameness Conjecture for train-track generic automorphisms

Let MM be a connected sum of copies of S2×S1S^2\times S^1, with canonical splitting M=H1H2M=H_1\cup H_2, and let f:MMf:M\to M be a train-track generic automorphism. A one-dimensional lamination in MM is tame if every point has a flat chart neighborhood in MM.

Tameness Conjecture. The automorphism ff can be isotoped so that it preserves the splitting and the induced automorphism gg on H1H_1 is train-track generic and has a tame one-dimensional invariant lamination.

The conjecture concerns whether the invariant laminations associated with train-track generic automorphisms can be chosen without the pathological self-linking found in typical generic automorphisms. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Leonardo N. Carvalho and Ulrich Oertel, “A classification of automorphisms of compact 3-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0510610 (2005).

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