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Combinatorial Dehn surgery on cubed and Haken 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

A combinatorial condition is obtained for when immersed or embedded incompressible surfaces in compact 3-manifolds with tori boundary components remain incompressible after Dehn surgery. A combinatorial characterisation of hierarchies is described. A new proof is given of the topological rigidity theorem of Hass and Scott for 3-manifolds containing immersed incompressible surfaces, as found in cubings of non-positive curvature.

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@article{arxiv.math/0008245,
  title  = {Combinatorial Dehn surgery on cubed and Haken 3-manifolds},
  author = {Iain R. Aitchison and J. Hyam Rubinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0008245},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper1.abs.html . Includes erratum added to the original, published 22 November 1999