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Small 3-manifolds with large Heegaard distance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2013

TAO LI*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We construct examples of closed non-Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a Heegaard splitting of arbitrarily large distance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013 

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