Symplectic Heegaard splittings and linked abelian groups

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Authors Joan Birman, Dennis L. Johnson, Andrew Putman

Publication date 9 March 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2104

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let $f$ be the gluing map of a Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold $W$. The goal of this paper is to determine the information about $W$ contained in the image of $f$ under the symplectic representation of the mapping class group. We prove three main results. First, we show that the first homology group of the three manifold together with Seifert's linking form provides a complete set of stable invariants. Second, we give a complete, computable set of invariants for these linking forms. Third, we show that a slight augmentation of Birman's determinantal invariant for a Heegaard splitting gives a complete set of unstable invariants.

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