A complex of incompressible surfaces for handlebodies and the mapping class group

DOI10.1007/S00605-012-0379-8zbMATH Open1261.57020arXiv1104.0660OpenAlexW1972817711MaRDI QIDQ714975FDOQ714975

Authors: Charalampos Charitos, I. Papadoperakis, Georgios Tsapogas 

Publication date: 15 October 2012

Published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a genus g handlebody H a simplicial complex, with vertices being isotopy classes of certain incompressible surfaces in H, is constructed and several properties are established. In particular, this complex naturally contains, as a subcomplex, the complex of curves of the boundary surface of H. As in the classical theory, the group of automorphisms of this complex is identified with the mapping class group of the handlebody.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0660

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zbMATH Keywords

handlebodydisk complexmapping class groupcomplex of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

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