Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2003-08-06
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
23 pages, 19 figures; to appear in JKTR
Scientific paper
We present a simple combinatorial method to encode 3-dimensional manifolds,
based on their Heegaard diagrams. The notion of a Gauss diagram of a 3-manifold
is introduced. We check the conditions for a Gauss diagram to represent a
closed manifold and a manifold with boundary.
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