Morse area and Scharlemann-Thompson width for hyperbolic 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.281.83zbMATH Open1335.57027arXiv1503.08521OpenAlexW3102092395MaRDI QIDQ2634643FDOQ2634643

Authors: Diane Hoffoss, Joseph Maher 

Publication date: 18 February 2016

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Scharlemann and Thompson define a numerical complexity for a 3-manifold using handle decompositions of the manifold. We show that for compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds this is linearly related to a definition of metric complexity in terms of the areas of level sets of Morse functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08521

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zbMATH Keywords

Morse functionHeegaard splittinghyperbolic 3-manifoldScharlemann-Thompson width

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

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• Morse functions to graphs and topological complexity for hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds

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