A proof of Reidemeister-Singer's theorem by Cerf's methods

DOI10.5802/AFST.1404zbMath1322.57020arXiv1202.1130OpenAlexW2962982527MaRDI QIDQ2449693

François Laudenbach

Publication date: 9 May 2014

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1130

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryHeegaard splittingCerf theoryordered functionspseudo-gradient field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Isotopy and pseudo-isotopy (57N37) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Related Items (7)

Bisections explain the Reidemeister-Singer theorem: a return to the roots ⋮ Elimination of extremal index zeroes from generic paths of closed 1-forms ⋮ Logarithmic stabilization of the Euler-Bernoulli transmission plate equation with locally distributed Kelvin-Voigt damping ⋮ Extending functions from a neighborhood of the sphere to the ball ⋮ Existence of two-parameter crossings, with applications ⋮ From Heegaard splittings to trisections; porting \(3\)-dimensional ideas to dimension \(4\) ⋮ Stable equivalence of bridge positions of a handlebody-knot

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Bisections explain the Reidemeister-Singer theorem: a return to the roots
• A proof of Morse's theorem about the cancellation of critical points
• On singularities of mappings of Euclidean spaces. I. Mappings of the plane into the plane
• Les singularités des applications différentiables
• Zur dreidimensionalen Topologie
• On gradient dynamical systems
• La stratification naturelle des espaces de fonctions différentiables réelles et le théorème de la pseudo-isotopie
• Differential Topology
• A New Proof of the Reidemeister-Singer Theorem on Stable Equivalence of Heegaard Splittings
• Realization of smooth functions on surfaces as height functions
• Lectures on Morse theory, old and new
• Three-Dimensional Manifolds and Their Heegaard Diagrams
• Introduction to Dynamical Systems
• On the Volume Elements on a Manifold

This page was built for publication: A proof of Reidemeister-Singer's theorem by Cerf's methods