Abstract: We give a description of degree-one maps between closed, oriented 3-manifolds in terms of surgery. Namely, we show that there is a degree-one map from a closed, oriented 3-manifold to a closed, oriented 3-manifold if and only if can be obtained from by surgery about a link in each of whose components is an unknot. We use this to interpret the existence of degree-one maps between closed 3-manifolds in terms of smooth 4-manifolds. More precisely, we show that there is a degree-one map from to if and only if there is a smooth embedding of in , for some , which separates the boundary components of . This is motivated by the relation to topological field theories, in particular the invariants of Ozsvath and Szabo.
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