Incompressibility and normal minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9358-1zbMATH Open1185.57021arXiv0810.0187OpenAlexW2044919900MaRDI QIDQ735047FDOQ735047

Authors: Tejas Kalelkar 

Publication date: 14 October 2009

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we describe a procedure for refining the given triangulation of a 3-manifold that scales the PL-metric according to a given weight function while creating no new normal surfaces. It is known that an incompressible surface $F$ in a triangulated 3-manifold $M$ is isotopic to a normal surface that is of minimal PL-area in the isotopy class of $F$. Using the above scaling refinement we prove the converse. If $F$ is a surface in a closed 3-manifold $M$ such that for any triangulation $au$ of $M$, $F$ is isotopic to a $au$-normal surface $F(au)$ that is of minimal PL-area in its isotopy class, then we show that $F$ is incompressible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0187

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zbMATH Keywords

triangulationsminimal surfacesincompressible surfacesNormal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Isotopy in PL-topology (57Q37)

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