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Horizontal Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces

Geometric Topology 2008-02-07 v1

Abstract

We show that if an orientable Seifert fibered space MM with an orientable genus gg base space admits a strongly irreducible horizontal Heegaard splitting then there is a one-to-one correspondence between isotopy classes of strongly irreducible horizontal Heegaard splittings and elements of Z2g\mathbf{Z}^{2g}. The correspondence is determined by the slopes of intersection of each Heegaard splitting with a collection of 2g2g incompressible tori in MM. We also show that there are Seifert fibered spaces with infinitely many non-isotopic Heegaard splittings that determine Nielsen equivalent generating systems for the fundamental group of MM.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0856,
  title  = {Horizontal Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces},
  author = {Jesse Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0856},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure