Twist decompositions of gluing homeomorphisms of planar Heegaard diagrams of genus two
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Abstract:
We will give a very simple algorithm to decompose a gluing homeomorphism of a planar Heegaard diagram of genus two into Dehn twists associated with the canonical base.References
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- Yoshiko Sakata
- Affiliation: Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University, Nara 630, Japan
- Email: ysakata@isc.chubu.ac.jp
- Mitsuyuki Ochiai
- Affiliation: Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University, Nara 630, Japan
- Email: ochiai@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp
- Kayo Satoh
- Affiliation: Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University, Nara 630, Japan
- Received by editor(s): January 5, 1999
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 30, 1999
- Published electronically: October 12, 2000
- Communicated by: Ronald Fintushel
- © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 559-566
- MSC (1991): Primary 57M25; Secondary 57M35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05575-1
- MathSciNet review: 1707530