Connected sums of unstabilized Heegaard splittings are unstabilized
Connected sums of unstabilized Heegaard splittings are unstabilized
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DOI:
10.2140/gt.2008.12.2327
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发表时间:
2004-04
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2
通讯作者:
D. Bachman
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作者:
D. Bachman
Let M1 and M2 be closed, orientable 3‐manifolds. Let Hi denote a Heegaard surface in Mi . We prove that if H1#H2 comes from stabilizing a lower genus splitting of M1#M2 then one of H1 or H2 comes from stabilizing a lower genus splitting. This answers a question of C Gordon [9, Problem 3.91]. We also show that every unstabilized Heegaard splitting has a unique expression as the connected sum of Heegaard splittings of prime 3‐manifolds.