A sharp hyperbolic volume bound for hypersurfaces in $M^3 \times \mathbb{S}^1$
Let $(M^3, g_{\mathrm{hyp}})$ be a closed oriented hyperbolic three-manifold normalized so that $\operatorname{sec}_{g_{\mathrm{hyp}}} \equiv -1$. We prove a sharp lower bound for the volume of hypersurfaces in $M^3 \times \mathbb{S}^1$ representing the slice class $[M^3 \times \{ \mathrm{pt} \}] \in H_3(M^3 \times \ma...