A finiteness result for Heegaard splittings

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2004.01.004zbMATH Open1052.57026arXivmath/0211273OpenAlexW2085907091MaRDI QIDQ1879804FDOQ1879804

Authors: Martin Lustig, Yoav Moriah 

Publication date: 23 September 2004

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

pair of pants decompositionHeegaard splittingsrectangle conditiondouble rectangle condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

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