A proof of the Gordon conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.07.004MaRDI QIDQ1034089zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ruifeng Qiu, Martin Scharlemann

Publication date 10 November 2009

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4581

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard splittingstabilizedGordon conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A combinatorial proof of the Gordon Conjecture: The sum of two Heegaard splittings is stabilized if and only if one of the two summands is stabilized.

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