Twisted book decompositions and the Goeritz groups (Q2295657)

The Goeritz group of a Heegaard splitting for a 3-manifold is the group of isotopy classes of orientation-preserving automorphisms of the manifold that preserve each of the two handlebodies of the splitting setwise. We may consider the structure of the Goeritz groups. Firstly the authors consider the Goeritz groups of keen Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds and show that for all \(g\geq 3\) and \(n\geq 2\) there exists a genus-\(g\), distance-\(n\) Heegaard splitting such that the Goeritz group is either a finite cyclic group or a finite dihedral group. The authors also consider the Goeritz groups of Heegaard splittings induced from twisted book decompositions and show that there exist Heegaard splittings of distance 2 that have infinite-order mapping class groups whereas they are not induced from open book decompositions. Explicit computations of those mapping class groups are given.