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Large embedded balls and Heegaard genus in negative curvature

Geometric Topology 2014-10-01 v2

Abstract

We show if M is a closed, connected, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifold with Heegaard genus g then g >= 1/2 cosh(r) where r denotes the radius of any isometrically embedded ball in M. Assuming an unpublished result of Pitts and Rubinstein improves this to g >= 1/2 cosh(r) + 1/2. We also give an upper bound on the volume in terms of the flip distance of a Heegaard splitting, and describe isoperimetric surfaces in hyperbolic balls.

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@article{arxiv.math/0305290,
  title  = {Large embedded balls and Heegaard genus in negative curvature},
  author = {David Bachman and Daryl Cooper and Matthew E. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0305290},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-3.abs.html