Degree one maps between small 3-manifolds and Heegaard genus

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.1433MaRDI QIDQ2571390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Boileau, Shicheng Wang

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402121, https://eudml.org/doc/125804, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-56.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

degree one mapHeegaard genussmall 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We prove a rigidity theorem for degree one maps between small 3-manifolds using Heegaard genus, and provide some applications and connections to Heegaard genus and Dehn surgery problems.

Review text

It was observed by Kneser, Haken and Waldhausen that a degree one map \(M \to N\) between two closed, orientable 3-manifolds is homotopic to a map which is a homeomorphism outside a handlebody corresponding to one side of a Heegaard splitting of \(N\). This fact is known as ``any degree one map between 3-manifolds is homotopic to a pinch. A main result of the paper is the following rigidity theorem. Let \(M\) and \(N\) be two closed, small 3-manifolds. If there is a degree one map \(f : M \to N\) which is a homeomorphism outside an irreducible submanifold \(H \subset N\), then either: (1) There is a component \(U\) of \(H\) which carries \(\pi_1 N\) and such that Heegaard genuses satisfy the inequality \(g(U) \geq g(N)\), or (2) \(M\) and \(N\) are homeomorphic. Many interesting applications of this result are provided.

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• Detecting surface bundles in finite covers of hyperbolic closed 3-manifolds
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• Heegaard genus, degree‐one maps, and amalgamation of 3‐manifolds

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