Topological index theory for surfaces in 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2010.14.585zbMATH Open1206.57020arXiv0901.0208OpenAlexW2095565846MaRDI QIDQ982158FDOQ982158

David Bachman

Publication date: 6 July 2010

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The disk complex of a surface in a 3-manifold is used to define its {it topological index}. Surfaces with well-defined topological index are shown to generalize well-known classes, such as incompressible, strongly irreducible, and critical surfaces. The main result is that one may always isotope a surface $H$ with topological index $n$ to meet an incompressible surface $F$ so that the sum of the indices of the components of $HsetminusN(F)$ is at most $n$. This theorem and its corollaries generalize many known results about surfaces in 3-manifolds, and often provides more efficient proofs. The paper concludes with a list of questions and conjectures, including a natural generalization of Hempel's {it distance} to surfaces with topological index $ge2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0208

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfaceHeegaard splittingincompressible surfaceessentialirreducible 3-manifoldtopological index theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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