Generalized handlebody sets and non-Haken 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2008.235.35MaRDI QIDQ953067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jesse Johnson, Terk Patel

Publication date 14 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0518

zbMATH Keywords

curve complexHeegaard splittingboundary sethandlebody set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In the curve complex for a surface, a handlebody set is the set of loops that bound properly embedded disks in a given handlebody bounded by the surface. A boundary set is the set of non-separating loops in the curve complex that bound two-sided, properly embedded surfaces. For a Heegaard splitting, the distance between the boundary sets of the handlebodies is zero if and only if the ambient manifold contains a non-separating, two sided incompressible surface. We show that the boundary set is 2-dense in the curve complex, i.e. every vertex is within two edges of a point in the boundary set.

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