Bitwist 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2009.9.187MaRDI QIDQ1007205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James W. Cannon, William Floyd, W. R. Parry

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1912

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn surgery Heegaard diagrams 3-manifold constructions 3-manifold geometries face-pairings twisted face-pairings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Our earlier twisted-face-pairing construction showed how to modify an arbitrary orientation-reversing face-pairing on a faceted 3-ball in a mechanical way so that the quotient is automatically a closed, orientable 3-manifold. The modifications were, in fact, parametrized by a finite set of positive integers, arbitrarily chosen, one integer for each edge class of the original face-pairing. This allowed us to find very simple face-pairing descriptions of many, though presumably not all, 3-manifolds. Here we show how to modify the construction to allow negative parameters, as well as positive parameters, in the twisted-face-pairing construction. We call the modified construction the bitwist construction. We prove that all closed connected orientable 3-manifolds are bitwist manifolds. As with the twist construction, we analyze and describe the Heegaard splitting naturally associated with a bitwist description of a manifold.

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