Thinning Genus Two Heegaard Spines in S3

DOI10.1142/S0218216503002706MaRDI QIDQ4474512zbMATHFDO

Authors Martin Scharlemann, Abigail Thompson

Publication date 12 July 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111099

zbMATH Keywords

thin positionspineHeegard splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: We study trivalent graphs in $S^3$ whose closed complement is a genus two handlebody. We show that such a graph, when put in thin position, has a simple (i. e. non-loop) level edge.

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• Heegaard spines of 3-manifolds
• Multiple bridge surfaces restrict knot distance
• Heegaard surfaces for certain graphs in compressionbodies
• There are no unexpected tunnel number one knots of genus one

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