3-manifolds as viewed from the curve complex

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1997-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/math/9712220v1

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

29 pages

Scientific paper

A Heegaard diagram for a 3-manifold is regarded as a pair of simplexes in the complex of curves on a surface and a Heegaard splitting as a pair of subcomplexes generated by the equivalent diagrams. We relate geometric and combinatorial properties of these subcomplexes with topological properties of the manifold and/or the associated splitting. For example we show that for any splitting of a 3-manifold which is Seifert fibered or which contains an essential torus the subcomplexes are at a distance at most two apart in the simplicial distance on the curve complex; whereas there are splittings in which the subcomplexes are arbitrarily far apart. We also give obstructions, computable from a given diagram, to being Seifert fibered or to containing an essential torus.

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