How a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting intersects a handlebody

In [Topology Appl. 90 (1998) 135] Scharleman showed that a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting surface Q of a 3-manifold M can, under reasonable side conditions, intersect a ball or a solid torus in M in only a few possible ways. Here we extend those results to describe how Q can intersect a handlebody in M.     

Destabilizing Heegaard splittings of knot exteriors

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for Heegaard splittings of knot exteriors to admit destabilizations. As an application, we show the following: let K₁ and K₂ be a pair of knots which is introduced by Morimoto as an example giving degeneration of tunnel number under connected sum. The Heegaard splitting of the exterior of K₁#K₂ derived from certain minimal unknotting tunnel systems of K₁ and K₂ is stabilized.     

Common stabilizations of Heegaard splittings of link exteriors

We give a condition for a pair of unknotting tunnels of a non-trivial tunnel number one link to give a genus three Heegaard splitting of the link complement and show that every 2-bridge link has such a pair of unknotting tunnels.     

Weakly reducible Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces

We prove that for exceptional Seifert manifolds all weakly reducible Heegaard splittings are reducible. This provides the missing case for the Main Theorem in (Moriah and Schultens, to appear). It follows that for all orientable Seifert fibered spaces which fiber over an orientable base space, irreducible Heegaard splittings are either horizontal or vertical.     

Heegaard分解的重新分块

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High distance Heegaard splittings via fat train tracks

We define fat train tracks and use them to give a combinatorial criterion for the Hempel distance of Heegaard splittings for closed orientable 3-manifolds. We apply this criterion to 3-manifolds obtained from surgery on knots in S³.     

Big Heegaard distance implies finite mapping class group

We show that if M is a closed three manifold with a Heegaard splitting with sufficiently big Heegaard distance then the subgroup of the mapping class group of the Heegaard surface, whose elements extend to both handlebodies is finite. As a corollary, this implies that under the same hypothesis, the mapping class group of M is finite.     

Heegaard splittings 的曲面连通和

Suppose Mi = Vi ∪ Wi （i = 1,2） are Heegaard splittings. A homeomorphism f ： F1 → F2 produces an attached manifold M = M1 ∪F1=F2 M2, where Fi ∪→ δ_Wi. In this paper we define a surface sum of Heegaard splittings induced from the Heegaard splittings of M1 and M2, and give a sufficient condition when the surface sum of Heegaard splitting is stabilized. We also give examples showing that the surface sum of Heegaard splittings can be unstabilized. This indicates that the surface sum of Heegaard splittings and the amalgamation of Heegaard splittings can give different Heegaard structures.     

Critical Heegaard surfaces

In this paper we introduce critical surfaces, which are described via a 1-complex whose definition is reminiscent of the curve complex. Our main result is that if the minimal genus common stabilization of a pair of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings of a 3-manifold is not critical, then the manifold contains an incompressible surface. Conversely, we also show that if a non-Haken 3-manifold admits at most one Heegaard splitting of each genus, then it does not contain a critical Heegaard surface. In the final section we discuss how this work leads to a natural metric on the space of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings, as well as many new and interesting open questions.     

Unstabilized Self-amalgamation of a Heegaard Splitting along Disks

In this paper, we prove that a self-amalgamation of a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting along disks is unstabilized.     

A Note on Heegaard Splittings of Amalgamated 3-Manifolds

Let M be a compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold, and F be an essential connected closed surface in M which cuts M into two manifolds M1 and M2. If Mi has a minimal Heegaard splitting Mi = Vi ∪Hi Wi with d(H1) + d(H2) ≥ 2(g(M1) + g(M2) -g(F)) + 1, then g(M) = g(M1) + g(M2) - g(F).     

两个压缩体融合为一个压缩体的充分必要条件北大核心CSCD

本文给出了两个压缩体沿紧致连通曲面(带边曲面或闭曲面)融合仍是一个压缩体(有非空负边界)的充分必要条件,还给出了两个3维流形沿着边界上的紧致连通带边曲面融合中的融合曲面为边界不可压缩的一个特征描述,同时还证明了压缩体的每个Heegaard分解是标准的.     

A formula on Heegaard genus of self-amalgamated 3-manifolds

Let M be an orientable compact irreducible and ∂-irreducible 3-manifold, and suppose ∂M consists of two boundary components F₁ and F₂ with g(F₁)=g(F₂)>1. Let Mf be the closed orientable 3-manifold obtained by identifying F₁ and F₂ via a homeomorphism f:F₁→F₂. With the assumption that M is small or g(M,F₁)=g(M)+g(F₁), we show that if f is sufficiently complicated, then g(Mf)=g(M,∂M)+1.     

A Note on Heegaard Genus of Self-amalgamated 3-Manifold

Let M be a connected orientable compact irreducible 3-manifold. Suppose that αM consists of two homeomorphic surfaces F1 and F2, and both F1 and F2 are compressible in M. Suppose furthermore that g(M, F1) = g(M) + g(F1), where g(M, F1)is the Heegaard genus of M relative to F1. Let Mfbe the closed orientable 3-manifold obtained by identifying F1 and F2 using a homeomorphism f : F1 → F2. The authors show that if f is sufficiently complicated, then g(Mf) = g(M, αM) + 1.     

Heegaaed分解有不交曲线性质的一个充分条件

In the paper,we give two conditions that the Heegaard splitting admits the disjoint cnrve property.The main result is that for a genus g(g≥2)strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting(C1,C2;F),let Di be an essential disk in Ci,i=1,2,satisfying(1)at least one of (の)D4 and (の)D2 is separating in F and |(の)D1 (∩)(の)D2|≤ 2g-1;or(2)both (の)D1 and (の)D2 are non-separating in F and |(の)D1 (∩)(の)D2|≤ 2g-2,then(C1,C2;F)has the disjoint curve property.     

字定理在Heegaard分解方面的一个应用

The word theorem states that x can be denoted as a rotation inserting word of A if x is in the normal closure of A in F(X). As an application of the theorem, in this note a condition that guarantees reducing the genus of Heegaard splitting of 3-manifolds is given. This leads Poincare conjecture to a new formulation.     

Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations, II: Non-Haken 3-manifolds

A famous example of Casson and Gordon shows that a Haken 3-manifold can have an infinite family of irreducible Heegaard splittings with different genera. In this paper, we prove that a closed non-Haken 3-manifold has only finitely many irreducible Heegaard splittings, up to isotopy. This is much stronger than the generalized Waldhausen conjecture. Another immediate corollary is that for any irreducible non-Haken 3-manifold , there is a number such that any two Heegaard splittings of are equivalent after at most stabilizations.

     

Bounded 3-manifolds with Distance n Heegaard Splittings

We prove that for any integer n≥2 and g ≥ 2, there are bounded 3-manifolds admitting distance n, genus g Heegaard splittings with any given bound-aries.     

具有有限组不相交压缩圆片的Heegaard分解

设$V\cup_SW$是一个闭的三维流形亏格为$g$的, 弱可约的Heegaard分解, 并且在合痕意义下只有有限组位于曲面不同侧的不相交的压缩圆片, 则它存在一个广义的Heegaard分解: $V\cup_SW=(V_1\cup_{S_1}W_1)\cup_F(W_2\cup_{S_2}V_2)$, 并且满足对于每个$i=1,2$, 压缩体$W_i$都只有一个分离的压缩圆片且$d(S_i)\geq 2$. 进一步的, 如果有有限且多于1组不相交的压缩圆片, 则至少一个$d(S_i)$等于2, 并且Heegaard曲面满足临界性质.     

大距离Heegaard分解的三穿孔球面和

设$M_i~(i=1,2)$是一个紧致可定向的三维流形, $F_i$是$M_i$边界上的一个不可压缩曲面, $M=M_{1}\cup_{f}M_{2}$, 其中$f$是$F_1$到$F_2$一个同胚,对于具有特定条件的相粘曲面$F_i$, 如果$M_i$具有一个Heegaard距离至少是$2(g(M_1)+g(M_2))+1$的Heegaard分解,则$g(M)=g(M_1)+g(M_2)$.