The profinite completion of 3-manifold groups, fiberedness and the Thurston norm

Michel Boileau (1) , Stefan Friedl (2)

1 I2M - Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille
2 UR - Universität Regensburg

We show that a regular isomorphism of profinite completion of the fundamental groups of two 3-manifolds $N_1$ and $N_2$ induces an isometry of the Thurston norms and a bijection between the fibered classes. We study to what extent does the profinite completion of knot groups distinguish knots and show that it distinguishes each torus knot and the figure eight knot among all knots. We show also that it distinguishes between hyperbolic knots with cyclically commensurable complements under the assumption that their Alexander polynomials have at least one zero which is not a root of unity.

Domaines: Topologie géométrique [math.GT]; Théorie des groupes [math.GR]

Michel Boileau, Stefan Friedl. The profinite completion of 3-manifold groups, fiberedness and the Thurston norm. 2016. ⟨hal-01302558⟩