Thin position and Heegaard splittings of the 3-sphere

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214454875zbMath0820.57005OpenAlexW1526584020WikidataQ115179795 ScholiaQ115179795MaRDI QIDQ1327443

Abigail A. Thompson, Martin G. Scharlemann

Publication date: 18 July 1994

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214454875

zbMATH Keywords

height functionsplit linkgraphs whose complement is boundary-reducibleHeegaard splitting of \(S^ 3\)unknotted cycleWaldhausen's theorem

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