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A genus three handlebody.

In the mathematical field of geometric topology, a handlebody is a decomposition of a manifold into standard pieces. Handlebodies play an important role in Morse theory, cobordism theory and the surgery theory of high-dimensional manifolds. Handles are used to particularly study 3-manifolds.

Handlebodies play a similar role in the study of manifolds as simplicial complexes and CW complexes play in homotopy theory, allowing one to analyze a space in terms of individual pieces and their interactions.

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Handlebody

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mathematical field of geometric topology, a handlebody is a decomposition of a manifold into standard pieces. Handlebodies play an important role in Morse theory...

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Handle decomposition

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two types (i.e.: 0-handles and j-handles for some fixed j) is called a handlebody. When forming M union a j-handle H j {\displaystyle H^{j}} M ∪ f H j =...

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Compression body

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3-manifolds, a compression body is a kind of generalized handlebody. A compression body is either a handlebody or the result of the following construction: Let...

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Heegaard splitting

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oriented 3-manifold that results from dividing it into two handlebodies. Let V and W be handlebodies of genus g, and let ƒ be an orientation reversing homeomorphism...

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List of geometric topology topics

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fiber space Heegaard splitting Waldhausen conjecture Compression body Handlebody Incompressible surface Dehn's lemma Loop theorem (aka the Disk theorem)...

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Torus knot

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subset of a genus g handlebody in S³ (whose complement is also a genus g handlebody). If a link is a subset of a genus two handlebody, it is a double torus...

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Selman Akbulut

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Berkeley as a student of Robion Kirby. In topology, he has worked on handlebody theory, low-dimensional manifolds, symplectic topology, G2 manifolds....

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Geometric topology

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cut or boundary. This is closely related to, but not identical with, handlebody decompositions. It is a major tool in the study and classification of...

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Surgery theory

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cut or boundary. This is closely related to, but not identical with, handlebody decompositions. More technically, the idea is to start with a well-understood...

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Manifold

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geometric topology, most commonly studied are Morse functions, which yield handlebody decompositions, while in mathematical analysis, one often studies solution...

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Seifert surface

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{\displaystyle S^{3}} is a handlebody. (The complement of a Seifert surface generated by the Seifert algorithm is always a handlebody.) For any knot the inequality...

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Cobordism

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orientable surface is null-cobordant, because it is the boundary of a handlebody. On the other hand, the 2n-dimensional real projective space P 2 n ( R...

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Whitehead torsion

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1960s by Stephen Smale, for differentiable manifolds. The development of handlebody theory allowed much the same proofs in the differentiable and PL categories...

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Kirby calculus

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Similarly, such a cancelling pair can be created. Two different smooth handlebody decompositions of a smooth 4-manifold are related by a finite sequence...

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Stein manifold

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International Journal of Mathematics vol. 1, no 1 (1990) 29–46. Robert Gompf, Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces, Annals of Mathematics 148, (1998) 619–693...

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Tunnel number

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tunnels) that must be added to the knot so that the complement becomes a handlebody. The tunnel number can equally be defined for links. The boundary of a...

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Manifold decomposition

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boundary with that link Trigenus Compact, closed 3-manifolds Surgeries Three orientable handlebodies Unions along subsurfaces on boundaries of handlebodies...

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Kleinian group

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mirror orbifold with underlying space a ball. It is double covered by a handlebody; the corresponding index 2 subgroup is a Kleinian group called a Schottky...

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Robert Gompf

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need not be complex, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 138, 1993, p. 61–111 Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 148, 1998...

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List of knot theory topics

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the number of arcs that must be added to make the knot complement a handlebody Writhe Berge conjecture Birman–Wenzl algebra Clasper (mathematics) Eilenberg–Mazur...

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Dolgachev surface

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Akbulut (2012) showed that the Dolgachev surface X 3 {\displaystyle X_{3}} has a handlebody decomposition without 1- and 3-handles. Akbulut, Selman (2012). "The Dolgachev...

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Berge knot

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defined by the conditions: K lies on a genus two Heegaard surface S in each handlebody bound by S, K meets some meridian disc exactly once. John Berge constructed...

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Maps of manifolds

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geometric topology, most commonly studied are Morse functions, which yield handlebody decompositions, which generalize to Morse–Bott functions and can be used...

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Classification of manifolds

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n-manifolds ( n ≥ 4 {\displaystyle n\geq 4} ) presented as CW complexes or handlebodies, there is no algorithm for determining if they are isomorphic (homeomorphic...

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