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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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).     

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.     

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     

沿着不连通曲面的Heegaard分解的不可稳定化的融合积

Let M be a 3-manifold, F= {F1 , F2 , . . . , Fn } be a collection of essential closed surfaces in M (for any i, j ∈ {1, ..., n}, ifi≠j, Fi is not parallel to Fj and Fi ∩Fj = φ) and0 M be a collection of components of M. Suppose M-UFi ∈FFi×(-1, 1) contains k components M1 , M2 , . . . , Mk . If each M i has a Heegaard splitting ViUSiWi with d(Si) > 4(g(M1 ) + ··· + g(Mk )), then any minimal Heegaard splitting of M relative to 0M is obtained by doing amalgamations and self-amalgamations from minimal Heegaard splittings or -stabilization of minimal Heegaard splittings of M1 , M2 , . . . , Mk .     

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.     

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.     

Thin Position of Heegaard Splittings

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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.     

LCG Moves in Crystallizations

From a point of view of crystallizations as extended Heegaard diagrams, we introduce LCG ( linear cut and glue) moves with which we investigate relations between geometric T-transformations and crystallization moves. As applications of LCG moves, we verify various equivalences of Lins' crystallizations r _i ⁿ by means of LCG moves. In particular, we show that the two inequivalent Heegaard splittings of the Brieskorn homology sphere (2,3,7) are equivalent under single stabilization of each Heegaard splitting by explicitly showing LCG moves associated with the stable equivalence.     

Stabilizing and destabilizing Heegaard splittings of sufficiently complicated 3-manifolds

Let M ₁ and M ₂ be compact, orientable 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary, and M the manifold obtained by gluing with a homeomorphism ${\phi : {\partial}M_1 \to {\partial}M_2}$ . We analyze the relationship between the sets of low genus Heegaard splittings of M ₁, M ₂, and M, assuming the map ${\phi}$ is “sufficiently complicated”. This analysis yields counter-examples to the Stabilization Conjecture, a resolution of the higher genus analogue of a conjecture of Gordon, and a result about the uniqueness of expressions of Heegaard splittings as amalgamations.     

High distance Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds

J. Hempel [J. Hempel, 3-manifolds as viewed from the curve complex, Topology 40 (3) (2001) 631-657] used the curve complex associated to the Heegaard surface of a splitting of a 3-manifold to study its complexity. He introduced the distance of a Heegaard splitting as the distance between two subsets of the curve complex associated to the handlebodies. Inspired by a construction of T. Kobayashi [T. Kobayashi, Casson-Gordon's rectangle condition of Heegaard diagrams and incompressible tori in 3-manifolds, Osaka J. Math. 25 (3) (1988) 553-573], J. Hempel [J. Hempel, 3-manifolds as viewed from the curve complex, Topology 40 (3) (2001) 631-657] proved the existence of arbitrarily high distance Heegaard splittings.In this work we explicitly define an infinite sequence of 3-manifolds {Mn} via their representative Heegaard diagrams by iterating a 2-fold Dehn twist operator. Using purely combinatorial techniques we are able to prove that the distance of the Heegaard splitting of Mn is at least n.Moreover, we show that π₁(Mn) surjects onto π₁(Mn−1). Hence, if we assume that M⁰ has nontrivial boundary then it follows that the first Betti number β₁(Mn)>0 for all n?1. Therefore, the sequence {Mn} consists of Haken 3-manifolds for n?1 and hyperbolizable 3-manifolds for n?3.     

The -Stabilization of a Heegaard Splitting with Distance at Least 6 is Unstabilized

Let M be a compact orientable 3-manifold with M connected. If V ∪S W is a Heegaard splitting of M with distance at least 6, then the -stabilization of V ∪S W along M is unstabilized. Hence M has at least two unstabilized Heegaard splittings with different genera. The basic tool is a result on disk complex given by Masur and Schleimer.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

On Stiefel’s parallelizability of 3-manifolds

We give a new elementary proof of the parallelizability of closed orientable 3-manifolds. We use as the main tool the fact that any such manifold admits a Heegaard splitting.