Generalized Heegaard splittings and the disk complex

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Authors Jungsoo Kim

Publication date 5 May 2020

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00532, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1579079114

zbMATH Keywords

equivalent clustersgeneralized Heegaard splittings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: Let $M$ be an orientable, irreducible $3$-manifold and $(mathcalV,mathcalW;F)$ a weakly reducible, unstabilized Heegaard splitting of $M$ of genus at least three. In this article, we define an equivalent relation $sim$ on the set of the generalized Heegaard splittings obtained by weak reductions and find special subsets of the disk complex $mathcalD(F)$ named by the "equivalent clusters", where we can find a canonical function $Phi$ from the set of equivalent clusters to the set of the equivalent classes for the relation $sim$. As an application, we prove that if $F$ is topologically minimal and the topological index of $F$ is at least three, then there is a $2$-simplex in $mathcalD(F)$ formed by two weak reducing pairs such that the equivalent classes of the generalized Heegaard splittings obtained by weak reductions along the weak reducing pairs for the relation $sim$ are different. In the last section, we prove $Phi$ is a bijection if the genus of $F$ is three. Using it, we prove there is a canonical function $Omega$ from the set of components of $mathcal{D}_{mathcalVW}(F)$ to the set of the isotopy classes of the generalized Heegaard splittings obtained by weak reductions and describe what $Omega$ is.

Review text

Let \((\mathcal{V}, \mathcal{W}; F)\) be a weakly reducible, unstabilized Heegaard splitting of genus at least three in an orientable, irreducible 3-manifold \(M\). The author defines an equivalence relation on the set of generalized Heegaard splittings obtained by weak reductions (this notion is introduced in [\textit{D. Bachman}, Geom. Topol. 12, No. 4, 2327--2378 (2008; Zbl 1152.57020)]), and later shows that there are special subsets of the disk complex \(D(F)\) (named ``equivalent clusters) and there is a canonical function from the set of the equivalent clusters to the set of equivalence classes for the relation. When the surface \(F\) has genus three, the author proves that the canonical function is bijective.

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