Hyperbolization Conjecture for closed irreducible 3-manifolds

Let MM be a closed, connected, P2{\mathbf{P}^2}-irreducible 33-manifold with infinite fundamental group. Hyperbolization Conjecture. If π1(M)\pi_1(M) contains no subgroup isomorphic to ZZ\mathbf{Z}\oplus\mathbf{Z}, then MM is hyperbolic. This is one of the conjectures attributed in the source to Thurston and is presented as equivalent, together with the virtual bundle conjecture, to the hyperbolic case of geometrization; the source gives no resolution.

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Robert Myers, “Compactifying sufficiently regular covering spaces of compact 3-manifolds”, arXiv:math/9706218 (1997).

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