A proof of the Gordon conjecture
The paper under review presents a combinatorial proof of the Gordon Conjecture which claims that the sum of two Heegaard splittings is stabilized if and only if one of the two summands is stabilized. If one summand is stabilized, then the sum is clearly stabilized. \textit{C. McA. Gordon}, in Kirby's problem list [\textit{R. Kirby} (ed.), Geometric topology. 1993 Georgia international topology conference, August 2--13, 1993, Athens, GA, USA. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 2(pt.2), 35-473 (1997; Zbl 0888.57014)] conjectured that the opposite direction also holds. There should be a historical remark. In 2004, the first author of the present paper announced the proof of the conjecture. It was long and heavily combinatorial. The present paper arose from the second author's efforts to simplify and clarify the original ideas. On the other hand, \textit{D. Bachman} [Geom. Topol. 12, No. 4, 2327--2378 (2008; Zbl 1152.57020)] announced a proof of the conjecture. The first version needed an extra assumption, but a later version gives a full proof, which is also long and hard.
- A refinement of the Conway-Gordon theorems
- Destabilizing Heegaard splittings of knot exteriors
- A proof of Onsager's conjecture
- A note on bicompressible surface and unstabilized amalgamated Heegaard splitting
- Stabilizing and destabilizing Heegaard splittings of sufficiently complicated 3-manifolds
- Strongly irreducible self-amalgamation of a handlebody
- Some results on Heegaard splitting
- Unstabilized and uncritical self-amalgamation along essential subsurfaces
- Structure of Heegaard splitting of self-amalgamated 3-manifold
- A note on the planar surface sum of Heegaard splittings
- A note on the uniqueness of unstabilized Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifolds
- Unstabilized and uncritical dual Heegaard splitting of product I-bundle
- Unstabilized dual Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds
- Proof of the fundamental gap conjecture
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5578311 (Why is no real title available?)
- A note on proof of Gordon's conjecture
- Minimal Heegaard genus of amalgamated 3-manifolds
- On unstabilized Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifolds
- A sufficient condition for a self-amalgamation of a Heegaard splitting to be unstabilized
- Proof of the GGS conjecture
- Unperturbed weakly reducible non-minimal bridge positions
- The strong Haken theorem via sphere complexes
- An application of Gordon's conjecture
- Strongly irreducible dual amalgamation arising from H'-splittings
- A note on Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifolds
- Bilateral self-amalgamation of a Heegaard splitting and Hempel distance
- Connected sums of unstabilized Heegaard splittings are unstabilized
This page was built for publication: A proof of the Gordon conjecture
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1034089)
