On presentations of the fundamental group of the 3-sphere associated with Heegaard diagrams

DOI10.2969/jmsj/03310147zbMath0466.57001MaRDI QIDQ1155276

Takeshi Kaneto

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/03310147

zbMATH Keywords

generators of the group of homeomorphisms of a handlebody; presentations of the fundamental group of the 3-sphere induced by Heegaard diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M10: Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

20F34: Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)

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