Comparing Heegaard splittings -the bounded case

In a recent paper we used Cerf theory to compare strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings of the same closed irreducible orientable 3-manifold. This captures all irreducible splittings of non-Haken 3-manifolds. One application is a solution to the stabilization problem for such splittings: If are the genera of two splittings, then there is a common stabilization of genus . Here we show how to obtain similar results even when the 3-manifold has boundary.

     

Bilateral self-amalgamation of a Heegaard splitting and Hempel distance

A closed orientable Haken 3-manifold containing a non separating incompressible closed surface has two canonical Heegaard splittings, which are called self-amalgamation and bilateral self-amalgamation.Heegaard distance introduced by Hempel is a useful index in studying Heegaard splitting. This paper studies the stabilization problem for the bilateral self-amalgamation, and proves that if the distance of bilateral selfamalgamation of a Heegaard splitting is at least 9, then it is unstabilized, weakly reducible and irreducible.     

Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations, I: The Waldhausen conjecture

We give a proof of the so-called generalized Waldhausen conjecture, which says that an orientable irreducible atoroidal 3-manifold has only finitely many Heegaard splittings in each genus, up to isotopy. Jaco and Rubinstein have announced a proof of this conjecture using different methods.     

边界可约的Heegaard分解

本文证明了任意边界可约流形的Heegaard分解都是n个不可约的、边界不可约的三维流形的Heegaard分解通过连通和、边界连通和及边界自连通和运算而得到.     

Heegaard splittings of twisted torus knots

Little is known on the classification of Heegaard splittings for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Although Kobayashi gave a complete classification of Heegaard splittings for the exteriors of 2-bridge knots, our knowledge of other classes is extremely limited. In particular, there are very few hyperbolic manifolds that are known to have a unique minimal genus splitting. Here we demonstrate that an infinite class of hyperbolic knot exteriors, namely exteriors of certain “twisted torus knots” originally studied by Morimoto, Sakuma and Yokota, have a unique minimal genus Heegaard splitting of genus two. We also conjecture that these manifolds possess irreducible yet weakly reducible splittings of genus three. There are no known examples of such Heegaard splittings.     

Finite covers of random 3-manifolds

A 3-manifold is Haken if it contains a topologically essential surface. The Virtual Haken Conjecture posits that every irreducible 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover which is Haken. In this paper, we study random 3-manifolds and their finite covers in an attempt to shed light on this difficult question. In particular, we consider random Heegaard splittings by gluing two handlebodies by the result of a random walk in the mapping class group of a surface. For this model of random 3-manifold, we are able to compute the probabilities that the resulting manifolds have finite covers of particular kinds. Our results contrast with the analogous probabilities for groups coming from random balanced presentations, giving quantitative theorems to the effect that 3-manifold groups have many more finite quotients than random groups. The next natural question is whether these covers have positive betti number. For abelian covers of a fixed type over 3-manifolds of Heegaard genus 2, we show that the probability of positive betti number is 0.In fact, many of these questions boil down to questions about the mapping class group. We are led to consider the action of the mapping class group of a surface Σ on the set of quotients π₁(Σ)→Q. If Q is a simple group, we show that if the genus of Σ is large, then this action is very mixing. In particular, the action factors through the alternating group of each orbit. This is analogous to Goldman’s theorem that the action of the mapping class group on the SU(2) character variety is ergodic. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 57M50, 57N10     

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.

     

Annuli in generalized Heegaard splittings and degeneration of tunnel number

Abstract. We analyze how a family of essential annuli in a compact 3-manifold will induce, from a strongly irreducible generalized Heegaard splitting of the ambient manifold, generalized Heegaard splittings of the complementary components. There are specific applications to the subadditivity of tunnel number of knots, improving somewhat bounds of Kowng [Kw]. For example, in the absence of 2-bridge summands, the tunnel number of the sum of n knots is no less than the sum of the tunnel numbers. Received: 10 November 1999 / Published online: 28 June 2000     

Random methods in 3-manifold theory

The surface map arising from a random walk on the mapping class group may be used as the gluing map for a Heegaard splitting, and the resulting 3-manifold is known as a random Heegaard splitting. We show that the splitting distance of random Heegaard splittings grows linearly in the length of the random walk, with an exponential decay estimate for the proportion with slower growth. We use this to obtain the limiting distribution of Casson invariants of random Heegaard splittings.     

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.     

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$g(M)=g(M_1)+g(M_2)$.     

Non degenerating Dehn fillings on genus two Heegaard splittings of knots′ complements

It is Thurston's result that for a hyperbolic knot K in S~3, almost all Dehn fillings on its complement result in hyperbolic 3-manifolds except some exceptional cases. So almost all produced 3-manifolds have the same geometry. It is known that its complement in S~3, denoted by E(K), admits a Heegaard splitting. Then it is expected that there is a similar result on Heegaard distance for Dehn fillings. In this paper, Dehn fillings on genus two Heegaard splittings are studied. More precisely, we prove that if the distance of a given genus two Heegaard splitting of E(K) is at least 3, then for any two degenerating slopes on ?E(K), there is a universal bound of their distance in the curve complex of ?E(K).     

Local detection of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings

Let S be a Heegaard splitting surface of a compact orientable 3-manifold M. If S is strongly irreducible, the manner in which it can intersect a ball or a solid torus in M is very constrained and the allowable configurations are simple and useful. Splitting surfaces not conforming to these simple local pictures must be weakly reducible.     

An alternative proof of Lickorish–Wallace theorem

We introduce the concept of s-distance of an unstabilized Heegaard splitting. We prove if a 3-manifold admits an unstabilized genus g Heegaard splitting with s-distance m  , then surgery on some (m−1)$(m-1)$ components link may produce a 3-manifold which admits a stabilized genus g Heegaard splitting. We also give an alternative proof of the fundamental theorem of surgery theory, which states that every closed orientable 3-manifold is obtained by surgery on some link in 3-sphere.     

Unstabilized and uncritical self-amalgamation along essential subsurfaces

Suppose V ∪_S W is a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting of a compact connected orientable 3-manifold M and F_1 and F_2 are pairwise disjoint homeomorphic essential subsurfaces in ?_V. In this paper,we give a sufficient condition such that the self-amalgamation of V ∪_S W along F_1 and F_2 is unstabilized and uncritical.     

A complex for right-angled Coxeter groups

We associate to each right-angled Coxeter group a 2-dimensional complex. Using this complex, we show that if the presentation graph of the group is planar, then the group has a subgroup of finite index which is a 3-manifold group (that is, the group is virtually a 3-manifold group). We also give an example of a right-angled Coxeter group which is not virtually a 3-manifold group.

     

Spanning Annuli in 3—manifolds

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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.     

On transformations of special spines and special polyhedra

Special spines of 3-manifolds and special polyhedra are examined. Special transformations of spines and polyhedra are considered. Two triangulations of the same 3-manifold are known to have a common stellar subdivision, and two Heegaard splittings of the same 3-manifold are stably equivalent. We prove similar assertions for spines and polyhedra. Spines with the structure of a branched surface are studied. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 354–361, March, 1999.     

Bergman interpolation on finite Riemann surfaces. Part II: Poincaré-Hyperbolic Case

Let M be a 3-manifold with torus boundary components \(T_{1}\) and \(T_2\). Let \(\phi :T_{1} \rightarrow T_{2}\) be a homeomorphism, \(M_\phi \) the manifold obtained from M by gluing \(T_{1}\) to \(T_{2}\) via the map \(\phi \), and T the image of \(T_{1}\) in \(M_\phi \). We show that if \(\phi \) is “sufficiently complicated” then any incompressible or strongly irreducible surface in \(M_\phi \) can be isotoped to be disjoint from T. It follows that every Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold admitting a “sufficiently complicated” JSJ decomposition is an amalgamation of Heegaard splittings of the components of the JSJ decomposition.