The classification of surfaces via normal curves

DOI10.1365/S13291-022-00265-5MaRDI QIDQ6161752zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fethi Ayaz, Marc Kegel, Klaus Mohnke

Publication date 5 June 2023

Published in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00999

zbMATH Keywords

classification of surfacesnormal curvesprime decomposition of manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We present a simple proof of the surface classification theorem using normal curves. This proof is analogous to Kneser's and Milnor's proof of the existence and uniqueness of the prime decomposition of 3-manifolds. In particular, we do not need any invariants from algebraic topology to distinguish surfaces.

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