The Heegaard genus of bundles over S¹

DOI10.2140/GTM.2007.12.17MaRDI QIDQ5457865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Brittenham, Yo'av Rieck

Publication date 9 April 2008

Published in Geometry and Topology Monographs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608517

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfaceHeegaard genusPseudo-Anosov monodoromy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: This paper explores connections between Heegaard genus, minimal surfaces, and pseudo-Anosov monodromies. Fixing a pseudo-Anosov map phi and an integer n, let M_n be the 3-manifold fibered over S^1 with monodromy phi^n. JH Rubinstein showed that for a large enough n every minimal surface of genus at most h in M_n is homotopic into a fiber; as a consequence Rubinstein concludes that every Heegaard surface of genus at most h for M_n is standard, that is, obtained by tubing together two fibers. We prove this result and also discuss related results of Lackenby and Souto.

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