Generalized regular genus for manifolds with boundary

  • Paola Cristofori
Keywords: Heegaard splittings, Embedding of coloured graphs, Gems of 3-manifold

Abstract

We introduce a generalization of the regular genus, a combinatorial invariant of PL manifolds ([10]), which is proved to be strictly related, in dimension three, to generalized Heegaard splittings defined in [12].
Published
2005-03-01
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Articoli