Waldhausen's Theorem

zbMATH Open1139.57017arXiv0904.0182MaRDI QIDQ5457875FDOQ5457875

Authors: Saul Schleimer 

Publication date: 9 April 2008

Abstract: This note is an exposition of Waldhausen's proof of Waldhausen's Theorem: the three-sphere has a single Heegaard splitting, up to isotopy, in every genus. As a necessary step we also give a sketch of the Reidemeister-Singer Theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0182

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilizationHeegaard splittingsthree-spheretriangulations of three-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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