A lower bound of genus of amalgamations of Heegaard splittings

DOI10.1017/S030500410800203XzbMath1168.57015MaRDI QIDQ3628714

Feng Chun Lei, Guo-Qiu Yang

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard splittingHeegaard genusthe distance of a Heegaard splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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