Embedded spheres in S^2 S^1\# \# S^2 S^1

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2005.03.005zbMATH Open1087.57002arXivmath/0410047OpenAlexW2318330610MaRDI QIDQ818360FDOQ818360

Authors: Siddhartha Gadgil 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an algorithm to decide which elements of pi_2(S^2 imes S^1#...#S^2 imes S^1) can be represented by embedded spheres. Such spheres correspond to splittings of the free group on k generators. Equivalently our algorithm decides whether, for a handlebody N, an element in pi_2(N,partial N) can be represented by an embedded disc. We also give an algorithm to decide when classes in $$ can be represented by disjoint embedded spheres. We introduce the splitting complex of a free group which is analogous to the complex of curves of a surface. We show that the splitting complex of the free group on k generators embeds in the complex of curves of a surface of genus $k$ as a quasi-convex subset.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410047

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zbMATH Keywords

embeddingfree group2-spheresplittingimbeddingrepresentation of homotopy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

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