A finiteness result for Heegaard splittings

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2004.01.004MaRDI QIDQ1879804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Lustig, Yoav Moriah

Publication date 23 September 2004

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211273

zbMATH Keywords

double rectangle conditionHeegaard splittingspair of pants decompositionrectangle condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

Abstract: In this paper we show that for a given 3-manifold and a given Heegaard splitting there are finitely many preferred decomposing systems of $3g-3$ disjoint essential disks. These are characterized by a combinatorial criterion which is a slight strengthening of Casson-Gordon's rectangle condition. This is in contrast to fact that in general there can exist infinitely many such systems of disks which satisfy just the Casson-Gordon rectangle condition.

Review text

The authors show that for any closed orientable 3-manifold \(M\) and any Heegaard splitting \(M=H_1\cup H_2\) of genus \(g\geq 2\) there are finitely many pairs of decomposing systems \(D_i\subset H_i(i=1,2)\) of \(3g-3\) disjoint essential disks, which satisfy the double rectangle condition. The double rectangle condition is given by a combinatorial criterion which is a slight strengthening of Casson-Gordon's rectangle condition. This is in contrast to the fact that in general there can be infinitely many such systems of disks which satisfy just the Casson-Gordon rectangle condition.

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