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On the classification of Heegaard splittings

Geometric Topology 2018-11-14 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The long standing classification problem in the theory of Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds is to exhibit for each closed 3-manifold a complete list, without duplication, of all its irreducible Heegaard surfaces, up to isotopy. We solve this problem for non Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05945,
  title  = {On the classification of Heegaard splittings},
  author = {Tobias Holck Colding and David Gabai and Daniel Ketover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05945},
  year   = {2018}
}