On genus 2 Heegaard diagrams for the 3-sphere
On genus 2 Heegaard diagrams for the 3-sphere
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关于 3 球面的属 2 Heegaard 图
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1983-0688963-5
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1983
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T. Kaneto
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T. Kaneto
Let D be any genus 2 Heegaard diagram for the 3-sphere and (a,, a2; ?I, r2) be the cyclically reduced presentation associated with D. We shall show that ?I contains ?2 or Pi' as a subword in cyclic sense if {(P, ?2} #4 {a -', a '} holds, and that, using this property, (a1, a 2; r1, r2) can be transformed to the trivial one (al, a2; a ", a 1). By the recent positive solution of genus 2 Poincare conjec- ture, our result implies the purely algebraic, algorithmic solution to the decision problem; whether a given 3-manifold with a genus 2 Heegaard splitting is simply connected or not, equivalently, is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere or not. 1. Introduction. This is the continued work of (5) related to the experimental discovery due to Homma and Ochiai (cf. (5, 4)) which indicates the possibility of the existence of an elegant and practical algorithm for simplifying the presentations of the fundamental group associated with genus 2 Heegaard diagrams for the 3-sphere S3 by mutual substitutions (Definition 1). It is similar to Euclidean algorithm applied to relatively prime integers. In this paper, we shall establish it in complete manner (Theorem 2). The recent result announced by Thurston, Bass, Shalen, Meeks-Yau, Gordon-Litherland and others implies the positive solution of Poincare conjecture in case of Heegaard genus 2. Then our result implies the solution to the isomorphism problem with respect to the trivial group among all the presentations associated with genus 2 Heegaard diagrams. In other words, it gives a simple algorithm to decide whether a given 3-manifold with a genus 2 Heegaard splitting is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere or not. In order to prove Theorem 2, we shall show a key theorem (Theorem 1) which assures the existence of the substitution realized by some Heegaard diagram for S3. Our proof of Theorem 1 is based on the new concept of fake Heegaard diagrams (Definition 4), the surgery on them (Definition 5) and the result of (4). In the next section, we shall state our results precisely and prove them in the subsequent ??3, 4. In the last ?5, we shall show some examples for supplemental remarks related to our results.