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Parity criterion for unstabilized Heegaard splittings

  • Korea Institute for Advanced Study

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Abstract

We give a parity condition of a Heegaard diagram implying that it is unstabilized. As applications, we show that Heegaard splittings of 2-fold branched coverings of n-component, n-bridge links in S3 are unstabilized, and we also construct unstabilized Heegaard splittings by Dehn twists on any given Heegaard splitting.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-125
Number of pages11
JournalMathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Volume149
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010.07

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