Heegaard surfaces and the distance of amalgamation

Details Heegaard surfaces and the distance of amalgamation Heegaard surfaces and the distance of amalgamation

2008-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2869v2

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

38 pages, 2 figures

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Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be orientable irreducible 3--manifolds with connected boundary and suppose $\partial M_1\cong\partial M_2$. Let $M$ be a closed 3--manifold obtained by gluing $M_1$ to $M_2$ along the boundary. We show that if the gluing homeomorphism is sufficiently complicated, then $M$ is not homeomorphic to $S^3$ and all small-genus Heegaard splittings of $M$ are standard in a certain sense. In particular, $g(M)=g(M_1)+g(M_2)-g(\partial M_i)$, where $g(M)$ denotes the Heegaard genus of $M$. This theorem is also true for certain manifolds with multiple boundary components.

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