Cut-and-pastes of incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds

MaRDI QIDQ1802992zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Masako Kobayashi

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

compact orientable 3- manifoldcut-and-paste operationsincompressible surfaces

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Review text

Let \(F_ 1\) and \(F_ 2\) be two orientable incompressible surfaces of genus \(g_ 1\) and \(g_ 2\), respectively, properly embedded in a compact orientable 3-manifold \(M\) intersecting transversely. The author studies when cut-and-paste (CP) operations on components of the intersection of \(F_ 1\) and \(F_ 2\) yield incompressible surfaces \(F\). First he shows that if \(g_ 1\) or \(g_ 2=1\), then one can always do CP operations to obtain an incompressible \(F\). On the other hand he shows that for any \(g_ 1\) and \(g_ 2\) greater than one there is a closed 3-manifold \(M\) (containing \(F_ 1\) and \(F_ 2\) intersecting transversely) such that every CP operation yields a compressible \(F\); in fact each component of \(F\) bounds a handlebody.

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Cited in

(7)

• On cutting pseudo-foliations along incompressible surfaces
• Intersection of surfaces in 3-manifolds
• On the cut number of a \(3\)-manifold
• The Thurston Norm and 2-Handle Addition
• Sums of Incompressible Surfaces
• CUTTING AND PASTING OF G MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDARY
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 836202 (Why is no real title available?)

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