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Decomposing Perfect Discrete Morse Functions on Connected Sums of 3-manifolds

Algebraic Topology 2018-04-04 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we show that if a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold M = M1#M2 admits a perfect discrete Morse function, then one can decompose this function as perfect discrete Morse functions on M_1 and M_2. We also give an explicit construction of a separating sphere on M corresponding to such a decomposition.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00783,
  title  = {Decomposing Perfect Discrete Morse Functions on Connected Sums of 3-manifolds},
  author = {Neza Mramor Kosta and Mehmetcik Pamuk and Hanife Varli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00783},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures