Reducing Heegaard splittings

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(87)90092-7zbMath0632.57010OpenAlexW2061959778WikidataQ56442918 ScholiaQ56442918MaRDI QIDQ1095453

Andrew J. Casson, Cameron McA. Gordon

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(87)90092-7

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Heegaard splittingincompressible surfacehandlebodystrongly irreducibleaddition of 2-handlesessential 2-sphereincompressible boundary

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