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Record Nr.

UNISA996466375203316

Autore

Johannson Klaus <1948->

Titolo

Topology and combinatorics Of 3-manifolds / / Klaus Johannson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

3-540-49181-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 450 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 1599

Disciplina

514.3

Soggetti

Three-manifolds (Topology)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Algebraic topology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Handlebodies -- Relative handlebodies -- Generalized one-relator 3-manifolds -- N-relaton 3-manifolds -- The space of heegaard graphs.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a study of combinatorial structures of 3-mani- folds, especially Haken 3-manifolds. Specifically, it is concerned with Heegard graphs in Haken 3-manifolds, i.e., with graphs whose complements have a free fundamental group. These graphs always exist. They fix not only a combinatorial structure but also a presentation for the fundamental group of the underlying 3-manifold. The starting point of the book is the result that the intersection of Heegard graphs with incompressible surfaces, or hierarchies of such surfaces, is very rigid. A number of finiteness results lead up to a ri- gidity theorem for Heegard graphs. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in low-dimensional topolo- gy as well as combinatorial theory. It is self-contained and requires only a basic knowledge of the theory of 3-manifolds.