Automorphisms of the three-torus preserving a genus-three Heegaard splitting

DOI10.2140/PJM.2011.253.75MaRDI QIDQ657365zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jesse Johnson

Publication date 16 January 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2683, http://msp.berkeley.edu/pjm/2011/253-1/p05.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

3-torusHeegaard splittingmapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting is the group of connected components in the set of automorphisms of the ambient manifold that map the Heegaard surface onto itself. For the genus three Heegaard splitting of the 3-torus, we find an eight element generating set for this group. Six of these generators induce generating elements of the mapping class group of the 3-torus and the remaining two are isotopy trivial in the 3-torus.

Review text

Given a 3-manifold \(M\) and a Heegaard splitting \((\Sigma,H_{1},H_{2})\) of \(M,\) consider the set \(Aut(M)\) of orientation preserving automorphisms \(M\rightarrow M\). The set of connected components of \(Aut(M)\) forms a group \(Mod(M)\) called the mapping class group. The subset of \(Aut(M)\) consisting of maps that send \(\Sigma\) onto itself is denoted by \(Aut(M,\Sigma).\) The set of connected components of \(Aut(M,\Sigma)\) again forms a group which will be denoted by \(Mod(M,\Sigma).\) In the present paper the author considers the Heegaard splitting \((\Sigma,H_{1},H_{2})\) of the 3-torus \(T^{3}\) and he finds a set of generators for the group \(Mod(T^{3},\Sigma).\) More concretely, he finds a eight element generating set for \(Mod(T^{3},\Sigma).\) Six of these generators induce generating elements of the mapping class group of the \(T^{3}\) and the remaining two elements are isotopy trivial in \(T^{3}.\)

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