Locally unknotted spines of Heegaard splittings (Q813177)
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Locally unknotted spines of Heegaard splittings (English)
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30 January 2006
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The main result of this paper is the following: If \((\Sigma, H_1, H_2)\) is a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting for a manifold \(M\) then every spine of \(\Sigma\) is locally unknotted. Thus the spines of the handlebodies of a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting will intersect a closed ball in a graph which is isotopic into the boundary of the ball.
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spine
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Heegard splitting
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sweep-out
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