A chain complex and quadrilaterals for normal surfaces

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2013-43-2-479MaRDI QIDQ350774zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Siddhartha Gadgil, Tejas Kalelkar

Publication date 3 July 2013

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0342, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1372776702

zbMATH Keywords

normal surfacequadrilateral coordinatesthree manifoldvertex linking spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: We interpret a normal surface in a (singular) three-manifold in terms of the homology of a chain complex. This allows us to study the relation between normal surfaces and their quadrilateral co-ordinates. Specifically, we give a proof of an (unpublished) observation independently given by Casson and Rubinstein saying that quadrilaterals determine a normal surface up to vertex linking spheres. We also characterise the quadrilateral coordinates that correspond to a normal surface in a (possibly ideal) triangulation.

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