Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2003-03-30
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
13 pages, 2 figures. One figure added. The proof of a corollary was incorrect and had to be removed. The proof of the main res
Scientific paper
We present a new and shorter proof of Stocking's result that any strongly
irreducible Heegaard surface of a closed orientable triangulated 3-manifold is
isotopic to an almost normal surface. We also re-prove a result of Jaco and
Rubinstein on normal spheres. Both proofs are based on the "reduction"
technique introduced by the author.
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