A 3-manifold complexity via immersed surfaces

DOI10.1142/S0218216510008558zbMATH Open1221.57033arXiv0804.0695MaRDI QIDQ3074560FDOQ3074560

Authors: Gennaro Amendola Error creating thumbnail:

Publication date: 9 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define an invariant, which we call surface-complexity, of closed 3-manifolds by means of Dehn surfaces. The surface-complexity of a manifold is a natural number measuring how much the manifold is complicated. We prove that it fulfils interesting properties: it is subadditive under connected sum and finite-to-one on P2-irreducible manifolds. Moreover, for P2-irreducible manifolds, it equals the minimal number of cubes in a cubulation of the manifold, except for the sphere S3, the projective space RP3 and the lens space L41, which have surface-complexity zero. We will also give estimations of the surface-complexity by means of triangulations, Heegaard splittings, surgery presentations and Matveev complexity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0695

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zbMATH Keywords

complexity3-manifoldDehn surface

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