C-essential surfaces in (3-manifold, graph) pairs

DOI10.4310/CAG.2013.V21.N2.A2zbMATH Open1285.57004arXiv0910.3251MaRDI QIDQ357215FDOQ357215

Authors: Scott A. Taylor, Maggy Tomova 

Publication date: 30 July 2013

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $T$ be a graph in a compact, orientable 3--manifold $M$ and let $Gamma$ be a subgraph. $T$ can be placed in bridge position with respect to a Heegaard surface $H$. We show that if $H$ is what we call $(T,Gamma)$-c-weakly reducible in the complement of $T$ then either a "degenerate" situation occurs or $H$ can be untelescoped and consolidated into a collection of "thick surfaces" and "thin surfaces". The thin surfaces are c-essential (c-incompressible and essential) in the graph exterior and each thick surface is a strongly irreducible bridge surface in the complement of the thin surfaces. This strengthens and extends previous results of Hayashi-Shimokawa and Tomova to graphs in 3-manifolds that may have non-empty boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3251

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zbMATH Keywords

bridge surfacec-essentialHeegaard surfacethin position

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