Extension of incompressible surfaces on the boundaries of 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2000.194.335zbMATH Open1015.57010arXivmath/9706222OpenAlexW2119729517MaRDI QIDQ1587557FDOQ1587557

Authors: Ying-Qing Wu, Michael Freedman, Hugh Nelson Howards 

Publication date: 3 December 2000

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An incompressible surface $F$ on the boundary of a compact orientable 3-manifold $M$ is arc-extendible if there is an arc $gamma$ on $partialM-$ Int $F$ such that $FcupN(gamma)$ is incompressible, where $N(gamma)$ is a regular neighborhood of $gamma$ in $partialM$. Suppose for simplicity that $M$ is irreducible, and $F$ has no disk components. If $M$ is a product $FimesI$, or if $partialM-F$ is a set of annuli, then clearly $F$ is not arc-extendible. The main theorem of this paper shows that these are the only obstructions for $F$ to be arc-extendible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9706222

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zbMATH Keywords

arc-extendibleincompressible bounded surface

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