A presentation for the automorphisms of the 3-sphere that preserve a genus two Heegaard splitting

DOI10.2140/PJM.2008.236.201MaRDI QIDQ953103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erol Akbas

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/math/0504519

zbMATH Keywords

presentationthree-sphereHeegaardgenus two handlebody

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: Scharlemann constructed a connected simplicial 2-complex $Gamma$ with an action by the group $mathcal{H}_2$ of isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of $S^3$ that preserve the isotopy class of an unknotted genus 2 handlebody $V$. In this paper we prove that the 2-complex $Gamma$ is contractible. Therefore we get a finite presentation of $mathcal{H}_2$.

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