The amalgamation of high distance Heegaard splittings along tori

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950014
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Guoqiu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Disjoint Union ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Heegaard Genus ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Distance Formula

Let [Formula: see text] be a compact, connected, orientable closed 3-manifold. Let [Formula: see text] be a disjoint union of incompressible separating tori in [Formula: see text] which cut [Formula: see text] into the submanifolds [Formula: see text]. In the present paper, we show that the Heegaard genus [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is given by [Formula: see text] provided that each [Formula: see text] has a Heegaard splitting [Formula: see text] with Hempel distance [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Heegaard distance of the link complements in S3

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150005
Author(s):  
Xifeng Jin
Keyword(s):  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Link Complements ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Heegaard Distance ◽  
Distance Formula

We show that, for any integers, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], there exists a link in [Formula: see text] such that its complement has a genus [Formula: see text] Heegaard splitting with distance [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Many Haken Heegaard splittings

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 357-369
Author(s):  
Alessandro Sisto
Keyword(s):  
Hyperbolic Manifolds ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Simple Criterion ◽  
Heegaard Genus ◽  
Heegaard Distance ◽  
The Way

We give a simple criterion for a Heegaard splitting to yield a Haken manifold. As a consequence, we construct many Haken manifolds, in particular homology spheres, with prescribed properties, namely Heegaard genus, Heegaard distance and Casson invariant. Along the way we give simpler and shorter proofs of the existence of splittings with specified Heegaard distance, originally proven by Ido–Jang–Kobayashi, of the existence of hyperbolic manifolds with prescribed Casson invariant, originally due to Lubotzky–Maher–Wu, and of a result about subsurface projections of disc sets (for which we even get better constants), originally due to Masur–Schleimer.

Local uniqueness of certain geodesics related to Heegaard splittings

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 1842003
Author(s):  
Liang Liang ◽  
Fengling Li ◽  
Fengchun Lei ◽  
Jie Wu
Keyword(s):  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Local Uniqueness ◽  
Uniqueness Property

Suppose [Formula: see text] is a Heegaard splitting and [Formula: see text] is an essential separating disk in [Formula: see text] such that a component of [Formula: see text] is homeomorphic to [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we prove that if there is a locally complicated simplicial path in [Formula: see text] connecting [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text], then the geodesic connecting [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text] is unique. Moreover, we give a sufficient condition such that [Formula: see text] is keen and the geodesic between any pair of essential disks on the opposite sides has local uniqueness property.

On a hyperbolic 3-manifold with some special properties

1993 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Coxeter Groups ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Finite Subgroup ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Heegaard Genus ◽  
Normal Torsion ◽  
Covering Group ◽  
Minimal Index ◽  
Torsion Free Subgroup ◽  
Torsion Free

We present a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold M with some surprising properties. The universal covering group of M is a normal torsion-free subgroup of minimal index in one of the nine Coxeter groups G, generated by the reflections in the faces of one of the nine Lannér-tetrahedra (bounded tetrahedra in hyperbolic 3-space all of whose dihedral angles are of the form π/n with n ∈ ℕ see [1] or [3]). The corresponding Coxeter group G splits as a semidirect product G = π1M⋉A, where A is a finite subgroup of G, and G is the only one of the nine Coxeter groups associated to the Lannér-tetrahedra which admits such a splitting (this follows using results in [4]). We derive a presentation of π1M and show that the first homology group H1(M) of M is isomorphic to ℚ11. This is in sharp contrast to other torsion-free (non-normal) subgroups of finite index in Coxeter groups constructed in [1] which all have finite first homology (though it is known that they are all virtually ℚ-representable (see [5], p. 434). It follows from our computations that the Heegaard genus of M is 11, and that there exists a Heegaard splitting of M of genus 11 invariant under the action of the group I+(M) ≌ S5 ⊕ ℚ2 of orientation-preserving isometries of M (we compute this group in [4]), so that the Heegaard genus of M is equal to the equivariant Heegaard genus of the action of I+(M) on M. Moreover M is maximally symmetric in the sense of [4, 6]: the order 120 of the subgroup of index 2 in I+(M) which preserves both handle-bodies of the Heegaard splitting is the maximal possible order of a group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of a handle-body of genus 11. (This maximal order is 12(g—1) for a handle-body of genus g; see [7].) By taking the coverings Mq of M corresponding to the surjections π1M→H1(M) ≌ ℚ11→(ℚq)11 for q ∈ ℕ, we obtain explicitly an infinite series of maximally symmetric hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

RECTANGLE CONDITION FOR COMPRESSION BODIES AND 2-FOLD BRANCHED COVERINGS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (08) ◽  
pp. 1250078
Author(s):  
JUNGSOO KIM ◽  
JUNG HOON LEE
Keyword(s):  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Level Surface ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Branched Coverings ◽  
Link Complement ◽  
Strong Irreducibility

We give the rectangle condition for strong irreducibility of Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds with non-empty boundary. We apply this to a generalized Heegaard splitting of 2-fold covering of S3 branched along a link. The condition implies that any thin meridional level surface in the link complement is incompressible. We also show that the additivity of width holds for a composite knot satisfying the condition.

3-Manifold invariants derived from the intersecting kernels

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (13) ◽  
pp. 1650109
Author(s):  
Fengling Li ◽  
Fengchun Lei ◽  
Jie Wu
Keyword(s):  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Quotient Groups

The intersecting kernel of a Heegaard splitting [Formula: see text] for a compact orientable 3-manifold [Formula: see text] is the subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the homomorphism induced by the inclusion [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. In the paper, we obtain some invariants of 3-manifolds [Formula: see text] from certain quotient groups of the intersecting kernels of their Heegaard splittings. We also list two algebraic problems related to the new invariants, which might be interesting to study.

An equivalent description of the lens space L(p,q) with p prime

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2042005
Author(s):  
Fengling Li ◽  
Dongxu Wang ◽  
Liang Liang ◽  
Fengchun Lei
Keyword(s):  
Complete System ◽  
Lens Space ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Prime Integer ◽  
Heegaard Diagrams ◽  
Heegaard Diagram ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Equivalent Description

In the paper, we give an equivalent description of the lens space [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] prime in terms of any corresponding Heegaard diagrams as follows: Let [Formula: see text] be a closed orientable 3-manifold with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] a Heegaard splitting of genus [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] with an associated Heegaard diagram [Formula: see text]. Assume [Formula: see text] is a prime integer. Then [Formula: see text] is homeomorphic to the lens space [Formula: see text] if and only if there exists an embedding [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] bounds a complete system of surfaces for [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals A distance for circular Heegaard splittings

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (09) ◽  
pp. 1950059
Author(s):  
Kevin Lamb ◽  
Patrick Weed
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Morse Function ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Seifert Surface ◽  
Singular Foliation ◽  
Incompressible Surfaces ◽  
Minimal Genus ◽  
Seifert Surfaces ◽  
Index 2

For a knot [Formula: see text], its exterior [Formula: see text] has a singular foliation by Seifert surfaces of [Formula: see text] derived from a circle-valued Morse function [Formula: see text]. When [Formula: see text] is self-indexing and has no critical points of index 0 or 3, the regular levels that separate the index-1 and index-2 critical points decompose [Formula: see text] into a pair of compression bodies. We call such a decomposition a circular Heegaard splitting of [Formula: see text]. We define the notion of circular distance (similar to Hempel distance) for this class of Heegaard splitting and show that it can be bounded under certain circumstances. Specifically, if the circular distance of a circular Heegaard splitting is too large: (1) [Formula: see text] cannot contain low-genus incompressible surfaces, and (2) a minimal-genus Seifert surface for [Formula: see text] is unique up to isotopy.

scholarly journals Filling of closed surfaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 897-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bidyut Sanki
Keyword(s):  
Disjoint Union ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Constructive Proof ◽  
Closed Curves ◽  
Closed Surfaces ◽  
Minimal Filling ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
Closed Oriented Surface

Let [Formula: see text] denote a closed oriented surface of genus [Formula: see text]. A set of simple closed curves is called a filling of [Formula: see text] if its complement is a disjoint union of discs. The mapping class group [Formula: see text] of genus [Formula: see text] acts on the set of fillings of [Formula: see text]. The union of the curves in a filling forms a graph on the surface which is a so-called decorated fat graph. It is a fact that two fillings of [Formula: see text] are in the same [Formula: see text]-orbit if and only if the corresponding fat graphs are isomorphic. We prove that any filling of [Formula: see text] whose complement is a single disc (i.e. a so-called minimal filling) has either three or four closed curves and in each of these two cases, there is a unique such filling up to the action of [Formula: see text]. We provide a constructive proof to show that the minimum number of discs in the complement of a filling pair of [Formula: see text] is two. Finally, given positive integers [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], we construct a filling pair of [Formula: see text] such that the complement is a union of [Formula: see text] topological discs.

scholarly journals MAPPING CLASS GROUPS OF HEEGAARD SPLITTINGS

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350018 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESSE JOHNSON ◽  
HYAM RUBINSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Heegaard Splitting ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Connected Components ◽  
Heegaard Splittings ◽  
Ambient Manifold ◽  
Periodic Element ◽  
Heegaard Surface ◽  
Structural Theorems

The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting is the group of connected components in the set of automorphisms of the ambient manifold that map the Heegaard surface onto itself. We find examples of elements of the mapping class group that are periodic, reducible and pseudo-Anosov on the Heegaard surface, but are isotopy trivial in the ambient manifold. We prove structural theorems about the first two classes, in particular showing that if a periodic element is trivial in the mapping class group of the ambient manifold, then the manifold is not hyperbolic.

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