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On dual unit balls of Thurston norms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2021

Abdoul Karim Sane*
Affiliation:
Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

Abstract

Thurston norms are invariants of 3-manifolds defined on their second homology and understanding the shape of their dual unit balls is a widely open problem. In this article, we provide a large family of polytopes in $\mathbb {R}^{2g}$ that appear like dual unit balls of Thurston norms, generalizing Thurston’s construction for polygons in $\mathbb {R}^2$ .

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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2021

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