A necessary and sufficient condition for a surface sum of two handlebodies to be a handlebody

DOI10.1007/S11425-019-1647-9zbMATH Open1462.57022OpenAlexW3013000767MaRDI QIDQ828629FDOQ828629

Authors He Liu, Fengling Li, Andrei Vesnin, Fengchun Lei

Publication date 5 May 2021

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10113

zbMATH Keywords

handlebodyfree groupsurface sum of 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

Abstract: The main results of the paper is that we give a characteristics for an annulus sum and a once-punctured torus sum of two handlebodies to be a handlebody as follows: 1. The annulus sum $H=H_{1}cu{p}_A{H}_2$ of two handlebodies $H_1$ and $H_2$ is a handlebody if and only if the core curve of $A$ is a longitude for either $H_1$ or $H_2$. 2. Let $H=H_{1}cu{p}_T{H}_2$ be a surface sum of two handlebodies $H_1$ and $H_2$ along a once-punctured torus $T$. Suppose that $T$ is incompressible in both $H_1$ and $H_2$. Then $H$ is a handlebody if and only if the there exists a collection $delta,sigma$ of simple closed curves on $T$ such that either $delta,sigma$ is primitive in $H_1$ or $H_2$, or $delta$ is primitive in $H_1$ and $sigma$ is primitive in $H_2$.

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