Topology and combinatorics of 3-manifolds
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Topology and combinatorics of 3-manifolds
(Lecture notes in mathematics, 1599)
Springer-Verlag, c1995
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Topology and combinatorics of three-manifolds
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Bibliography: p. [436]-441
Includes index
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Description
This book is a study of combinatorial structures of 3-mani- folds, especially Haken 3-manifolds. Specifically, it is concerned with Heegard graphs in Haken 3-manifolds, i.e., with graphs whose complements have a free fundamental group. These graphs always exist. They fix not only a combinatorial stucture but also a presentation for the fundamental group of the underlying 3-manifold. The starting point of the book is the result that the intersection of Heegard graphs with incompressible surfaces, or hierarchies of such surfaces, is very rigid. A number of finiteness results lead up to a ri- gidity theorem for Heegard graphs. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in low-dimensional topolo- gy as well as combinatorial theory. It is self-contained and requires only a basic knowledge of the theory of 3-manifolds
Table of Contents
Handlebodies.- Relative handlebodies.- Generalized one-relator 3-manifolds.- N-relaton 3-manifolds.- The space of heegaard graphs.
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