Limits of incompressible surfaces

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(98)00083-2MaRDI QIDQ1817558zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hugh Nelson Howards

Publication date 7 June 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806101

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldsembedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Abstract: One can embed arbitrarily many disjoint, non-parallel, non-boundary parallel, incompressible surfaces in any three manifold with at least one boundary component of genus two or greater [4]. This paper proves the contrasting, but not contradictory result that although one can sometimes embed arbitrarily many surfaces in a 3-manifold it is impossible to ever embed an infinite number of such surfaces in any compact, orientable 3-manifold M.

Review text

The author proves that despite the fact that one can embed arbitrarily many disjoint, non-parallel, non-boundary-parallel, incompressible surfaces in any 3-manifold with at least one boundary component of genus \(>1\), one cannot ever embed an infinite number of such surfaces in any compact orientable 3-manifold.

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