A note on irreducible Heegaard diagrams
We construct a Heegaard diagram of genus three for the real projective 3-space, which has no waves and pairs of complementary handles. The first example was given by Im and Kim but our diagram has smaller complexity. Furthermore the proof presented here is quite different to that of the quoted autho...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2006-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/IJMMS/2006/53135 |
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| Summary: | We construct a Heegaard diagram of genus three for the real
projective 3-space, which has no waves and pairs of complementary
handles. The first example was given by Im and Kim but our diagram
has smaller complexity. Furthermore the proof presented here is
quite different to that of the quoted authors, and permits also to
obtain a simple alternative proof of their result. Examples of
irreducible Heegaard diagrams of certain connected sums complete
the paper. |
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| ISSN: | 0161-1712 1687-0425 |