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Morse area and Scharlemann-Thompson width for hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2016-02-17 v2

Abstract

Scharlemann and Thompson define a numerical complexity for a 3-manifold using handle decompositions of the manifold. We show that for compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds this is linearly related to a definition of metric complexity in terms of the areas of level sets of Morse functions.

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@article{arxiv.1503.08521,
  title  = {Morse area and Scharlemann-Thompson width for hyperbolic 3-manifolds},
  author = {Diane Hoffoss and Joseph Maher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.08521},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.2509 by other authors

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