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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 139722
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 139722 |
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28 March 1993
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minimal embeddings of open surfaces of finite type in \(R^ 3\)
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Heegaard splitting for a compact 3-manifold with nonempty boundary
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classification of Heegaard splittings of the 3-ball
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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0747.00024.] The ``naive'' definition of Heegaard splitting for a compact 3-manifold with nonempty boundary does not adequately handle problems of knotting. It is shown here that if the naive definition is modified to require also that the splitting surface \(F\) carry the fundamental groups of the two complementary components then there is a satisfactory classification of Heegaard splittings of the 3-ball in terms of the genus of \(F\) and the induced decomposition of the boundary sphere. This result is used to give a short proof of a theorem of Meeks and Yau on the uniqueness up to ambient homeomorphism of minimal embeddings of open surfaces of finite type in \(R^ 3\).
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