A partial order on multibranched surfaces in 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2020.107074MaRDI QIDQ2295667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Makoto Ozawa

Publication date 14 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01055

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldmultibranched surfacepartial orderspine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered topological structures (06F30) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Other geometric structures on 3-manifolds (57K35) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a partial order on neighborhood equivalence classes of maximally spread essential multibranched surfaces embedded in a 3-manifold. We show that if a maximally spread essential multibranched surface is atoroidal and acylindrical, then its equivalence class is minimal with respect to the partial order.

Review text

The author studies the union of a finite collection of compact surfaces with boundaries identified, either by homeomorphisms or covering maps. Such a 2-dimensional complex is called a multibranched surface. In such a complex, every point has a neighborhood homeomorphic either to \(E^2\) or to the union of a finite number of upper half planes with their boundaries identified. Such complexes are hypothesized to be embedded essentially in a 3-manifold, and suitably normalized (maximally spread). Under these hypotheses equivalence classes are shown to admit a partial ordering. In addition, a class with an atoroidal and acylindrical representative is shown to be minimal in this ordering. The paper ends with an illuminating example.

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