Singular surfaces, mod 2 homology, and hyperbolic volume, II
Marc Culler, Peter B. Shalen
Abstract
If M is a closed simple 3-manifold whose fundamental group contains a genus-g surface group for some g>1, and if the dimension of H1(M;Z2) is at least max(3g-1,6), we show that M contains a closed, incompressible surface of genus at most g. This improves the main topological result of part I, in which the the same conclusion was obtained under the stronger hypothesis that the dimension of H1(M;Z2) is at least 4g-1. As an application we show that if M is a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold with volume at most 3.08, then H1(M;Z2) has dimension at most 5.
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