The disk complex and topologically minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500923MaRDI QIDQ4965608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 6 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03329

zbMATH Keywords

3-spheredisk complexHeegaard surfacestopologically minimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

Abstract: We show that the disk complex of a genus $g>1$ Heegaard surface for the 3-sphere is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of $(2g-2)$-dimensional spheres. This implies that genus $g>1$ Heegaard surfaces for the 3-sphere are topologically minimal with index $2g-1$.

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