On the Birman invariants of Heegaard splittings

J. Birman had observed that the homological information about a given Heegaard splitting of genus g is contained in a double coset in the group of symplectic 2g×2g integer matrices with respect to a suitable subgroup, and found a determinant invariant of this double coset. We obtain complete invaria...

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Autores: Montesinos Amilibia, José María, Safont Edo, Carmen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1988
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/57704
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57704
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:515.163
3-dimensional manifolds
Heegaard splitting
linking form
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Sumario:J. Birman had observed that the homological information about a given Heegaard splitting of genus g is contained in a double coset in the group of symplectic 2g×2g integer matrices with respect to a suitable subgroup, and found a determinant invariant of this double coset. We obtain complete invariants of these double cosets by characterizing it in terms of the linking form of the manifold lifted to a handlebody of the Heegaard splitting and then finding complete invariants of this lifted form.