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Neighborhood equivalence for multibranched surfaces in 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2018-06-26 v1

Abstract

A multibranched surface is a 2-dimensional polyhedron without vertices. We introduce moves for multibranched surfaces embedded in a 3-manifold, which connect any two multibranched surfaces with the same regular neighborhoods in finitely many steps.

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@article{arxiv.1806.08919,
  title  = {Neighborhood equivalence for multibranched surfaces in 3-manifolds},
  author = {Kai Ishihara and Yuya Koda and Makoto Ozawa and Koya Shimokawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08919},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 8 figures