An algorithm for acylindrical surfaces in 3-manifolds (Q1598356)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1744147
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    An algorithm for acylindrical surfaces in 3-manifolds
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1744147

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      An algorithm for acylindrical surfaces in 3-manifolds (English)
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      13 April 2003
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      The author presents an algorithm to decide if an orientable atoroidal 3-manifold contains closed incompressible acylindrical surfaces and to construct them if they exist. The algorithm uses normal surface theory. To prove that the algorithm stops after a finite number of steps, the author shows that each acylindrical surface is isotopic to an edge surface.
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      3-manifolds
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      incompressible surfaces
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      edge surfaces
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      normal surface theory
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      algorithm
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