Almost normal surfaces with boundary
Geometric Topology
2013-02-14 v2
Abstract
We show that a strongly irreducible and boundary-strongly irreducible surface can be isotoped to be almost normal in a triangulated 3-manifold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.4632,
title = {Almost normal surfaces with boundary},
author = {David Bachman and Ryan Derby-Talbot and Eric Sedgwick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4632},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Incorporates changes suggested by referee. This version will appear in the volume "Geometry & Topology Down Under," published in the AMS series Contemporary Mathematics