Heegaard surfaces for certain graphs in compressionbodies

DOI10.1007/S13163-011-0075-6MaRDI QIDQ365137zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scott A. Taylor, Maggy Tomova

Publication date 4 September 2013

Published in Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3019

zbMATH Keywords

boundary stabilizationbridge positioncompressionbodyHeegaard surfaceperturbed Heegaard surfaceproperly embedded graphstabilized Heegaard surface

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Abstract: Let M be a compressionbody containing a graph T (with at least one edge) such that �oundary_+ M is parallel to the union of T and �oundary_- M. We extend methods of Hayashi and Shimokawa to classify bridge surfaces for T. The results of this paper are used in later work to show that if a bridge surface for a graph in a 3-manifold is c-weakly reducible then either a degenerate situation occurs or the exterior of the graph contains an essential meridional surface.

Review text

In [\textit{S. Taylor} and \textit{M. Tomova}, ``C-essential surfaces in (3-manifold, graph) pairs, \url{arXiv: 0910.3251}] the authors extended Hayashi and Shimokawa's definition of thin position for a link in a 3-manifold [\textit{C. Hayashi} and \textit{K. Shimokawa}, Pac. J. Math. 197, No. 2, 301--324 (2001; Zbl 1050.57016)] to graphs in a 3-manifold. Let \(M\) be a compact connected orientable 3-manifold and \(T\subset M\) a properly embedded finite graph and let \(H\) be a Heegaard surface for the pair \((M,T)\). In the given paper, the authors classify Heegard surfaces for pairs \((M,T)\) in the case when \(M\) is a compressionbody such that \(\partial _+M\setminus T\) is parallel to the frontier of \(T\cup \partial _-M\) in \(M\). The main result of the paper is Theorem 3.1 which says that if \(H\) is such a surface for \((M,T)\) then one of the following occurs: (i) \(H\) is stabilized, boundary stabilized, or perturbed; (ii) the graph \(T\) contains a removable path; (iii) \(M\) is a trivial compressionbody and \(H\setminus T\) is properly isotopic in \(M\setminus T\) to \(\partial _+M\setminus T\). The proof of Theorem 3.1 relies on previous classification results and techniques developed in Hayashi and Shimokawa [loc. cit.].

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