Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
arXiv:math/0111270
Abstract
We study the large-scale geometry of 3-manifolds with nontrivial 2-dimensional bounded cohomology, with a view to proving a weak version of the geometrization conjecture for such manifolds.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author. Paper incomplete; superseded by later developments (e.g Perelman's unconditional proof of geometrization)