• Title of article

    High distance Heegaard splittings via fat train tracks

  • Author/Authors

    Lustig، نويسنده , , Martin and Moriah، نويسنده , , Yoav، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    1118
  • To page
    1129
  • Abstract
    We define fat train tracks and use them to give a combinatorial criterion for the Hempel distance of Heegaard splittings for closed orientable 3-manifolds. We apply this criterion to 3-manifolds obtained from surgery on knots in S 3 .
  • Keywords
    Train tracks , Curve complex , Heegaard splittings , Heegaard distance
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Record number

    1581955