On the connectedness of subcomplexes of a disk complex

DOI10.1142/S0218216514500631MaRDI QIDQ2939934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jung Hoon Lee

Publication date 23 January 2015

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1264

zbMATH Keywords

disk complexHeegaard splittingreducing spheretopologically minimal surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: For a boundary-reducible $3$-manifold $M$ with $partialM$ a genus $g$ surface, we show that if $M$ admits a genus $g+1$ Heegaard surface $S$, then the disk complex of $S$ is simply connected. Also we consider the connectedness of the complex of reducing spheres. We investigate the intersection of two reducing spheres for a genus three Heegaard splitting of $mathrm(torus)imesI$.

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• On the existence of high index topologically minimal surfaces
• Topological index theory for surfaces in 3-manifolds

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• On -reducible 3-manifolds which admit complete surface systems

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