Incompressible surfaces via branched surfaces

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(84)90031-4MaRDI QIDQ584787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Floyd, Ulrich Oertel

Publication date 1984

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(84)90031-4

zbMATH Keywords

incompressible surfacebranched surface in a 3-manifoldHaken manifold with incompressible boundaryHaken manifolds with torus boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Cited in

(43)

• An algorithm to detect laminar 3-manifolds
• Links and spines
• Criteria for virtual fibering
• Intersection operations for measured laminations carried by a branched manifold
• Stable loops and almost transverse surfaces
• The slope conjecture for Montesinos knots
• Boundaries of \(\pi_ 1\)-injective surfaces
• An algorithm to determine the Heegaard genus of a 3-manifold
• Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial
• A contamination carrying criterion for branched surfaces
• Sums of Incompressible Surfaces
• Excellent non-orientable spanning surfaces with distinct boundary slopes
• Knot exteriors with all possible meridional essential surfaces
• Essential disks and semi-essential surfaces in 3-manifolds
• Incompressible spanning surfaces and maximal fibred submanifolds for a knot
• Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations. I: the Waldhausen conjecture
• A Heegaard-type presentation of branched spines and the Reidemeister-Turaev torsion
• Skinning maps are finite-to-one
• \(C^0\) approximations of foliations
• Taut foliations from double-diamond replacements
• Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations, II: Non-Haken 3–manifolds
• Statistical mechanics of \(2+1\) gravity from Riemann zeta function and Alexander polynomial: Exact results
• Incompressible surfaces in 2-bridge knot complements
• Heegaard structure respects complicated JSJ decompositions
• Rectangular diagrams of surfaces: representability
• The stability of foliations of orientable 3-manifolds covered by a product
• L-spaces, taut foliations and the Whitehead link
• Infinitely many meridional essential surfaces of bounded genus in hyperbolic knot exteriors
• KNOTTED SEIFERT SURFACES AND UNKNOTTED SEIFERT SURFACES
• Dynamical systems and the homology norm of a 3-manifold. I: Efficient intersection of surfaces and flows
• Boundary curves of surfaces with the 4--plane property
• The Reidemeister-Turaev torsion of standard Spin\(^ c \) structures on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds
• Classifying foliations of 3-manifolds via branched surfaces
• A polynomial upper bound on Reidemeister moves
• Prime knot complements with meridional essential surfaces of arbitrarily high genus
• Counting essential surfaces in \(3\)-manifolds
• Incompressible branched surfaces
• CONTACT STRUCTURES, σ-CONFOLIATIONS AND CONTAMINATIONS IN 3-MANIFOLDS
• Weil-Petersson translation length and manifolds with many fibered fillings
• Pseudo-Anosov maps and surgery on fibred 2-bridge knots
• Branched spines and Heegaard genus of 3-manifolds
• A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations
• Knots and surfaces

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