An irreducible Heegaard diagram of the real projective 3-space p3

We give a genus 3 Heegaard diagram H of the real projective space p3, which has no waves and pairs of complementary handles. So Negami's result that every genus 2 Heegaard diagram of p3 is reducible cannot be extended to Heegaard diagrams of p3 with genus 3.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Young Ho Im, Soo Hwan Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2000-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171200000430
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