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Locally unknotted spines of Heegaard splittings

Geometric Topology 2014-10-01 v3

Abstract

We show that under reasonable conditions, the spines of the handlebodies of a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting will intersect a closed ball in a graph which is isotopic into the boundary of the ball. This is in some sense a generalization of the results by Scharlemann on how a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting surface can intersect a ball.

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@article{arxiv.math/0411065,
  title  = {Locally unknotted spines of Heegaard splittings},
  author = {Jesse Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411065},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-63.abs.html