Irreducible Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces are either vertical or horizontal
Irreducible Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces are either vertical or horizontal
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Seifert 纤维空间的不可约 Heegaard 分裂要么是垂直的,要么是水平的
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10.1016/s0040-9383(97)00072-4
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1998
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J. Schultens
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Y. Moriah;J. Schultens
Irreducible 3-manifolds are divided into Haken manifolds and non-Haken manifolds. Much is known about the Haken manifolds and this knowledge has been obtained by using the fact that they contain incompressible surfaces. On the other hand, little is known about non-Haken manifolds. As we cannot make use of incompressible surfaces we are forced to consider other methods for studying these manifolds. For example, exploiting the structure of their Heegaard splittings. This approach is enhanced by the result of Casson and Gordon [6] that irreducible Heegaard splittings are either strongly irreducible (see Definition 1.2) or the manifold is Haken. Hence, the study of Heegaard splittings as a mean of understanding 3-manifolds, whether they are Haken or not, takes on a new significance.Let M be an orientable Seifert fibered space with m exceptional fibres and an orientable base space of genus g. These manifolds were known to have ‘‘vertical’’(see Definition 2.1) Heegaard splittings of genus 2g# m! 1. These Heegaard splittings were classified by Lustig and Moriah in [12] and [25], unless g" 0 and 0 ( m) 4. Heegaard splittings of manifolds of genus 2 (ie, g" 0 and m" 3) in this class were classified by Boileau et al.[1] and separately by Moriah [14] using the work of Boileau and Otal in [3]. In this case there are manifolds which have ‘‘horizontal’’Heegaard splittings (see Definition 3.1). Schultens [17] classified Heegaard splittings of manifolds which are (orientable surfaces); S and showed that these are all vertical. More recently, she showed [20] that all irreducible Heegaard splittings of orientable Seifert fibered spaces over an orientable base space with nonempty boundary are vertical. It should be mentioned that Waldhausen [24] classified Heegaard splittings for S, Bonahon and Otal [5] for Lens spaces and Boileau and Otal [2] did so for ¹.