Heegaard diagrams and applications

The main objective of this thesis is to study Heegaard diagrams and their applications. First, we investigate Heegaard diagrams of closed 3-manifolds and introduce the circle and chord presentation for a connected, closed 3-manifold. The equivalence problem for Heegaard diagrams after connected s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Zhongmou
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10807