Spines of 3-Manifolds as Polyhedra with Identified Faces
Geometric Topology
2012-04-18 v1
Abstract
In this article we establish the relation between the spines of 3-manifolds and the polyhedra with identified faces. We do this by showing that the spines of the closed, connected, orientable 3-manifolds can be presented through polyhedra with identified faces in a very natural way. We also prove the equivalence between the special spines and a certain type of polyhedra, and other related results.
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@article{arxiv.1204.3656,
title = {Spines of 3-Manifolds as Polyhedra with Identified Faces},
author = {Simón Isaza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3656},
year = {2012}
}