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Thinning genus two Heegaard spines in the 3-sphere

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study trivalent graphs in S3S^{3} whose closed complement is a genus two handlebody. We show that such a graph, when put in thin position, has a simple (i. e. non-loop) level edge.

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@article{arxiv.math/0111099,
  title  = {Thinning genus two Heegaard spines in the 3-sphere},
  author = {Martin Scharlemann and Abigail Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111099},
  year   = {2007}
}

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26 pages, 15 figures

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