scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1467272

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Authors J. Hyam Rubinstein, Martin Scharlemann

Publication date 31 July 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712262, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTMon2/paper24.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

hyperelliptic involutionSeifert manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

This paper examines ways in which two non-isotopic genus-two irreducible Heegaard splittings of the same closed orientable 3-manifold compare, with a particular focus on how the corresponding hyperelliptic involutions are related. The authors, using a technique similar to one introduced by them in an earlier paper [Topology 35, No. 4, 1005-1026 (1996; Zbl 0858.57020)], list all ways in which two such Heegaard splittings compare, and show that the list is exhaustive. The comparison is only qualitative, since two Heegaard splittings with different descriptions in the paper may be isotopic. Some results concerning the corresponding hyperelliptic involutions, which present the manifold as two-fold covering of \(S^3\) branched over a three-bridge knot or link, are proved. For example, if \(M\) is an atoroidal closed orientable 3-manifold then the involutions coming from distinct Heegaard splittings necessarily commute. Moreover, they prove that two genus-two Heegaard splittings of the same manifold become equivalent after a single stabilization. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0939.00055].

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