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Bitwist 3–manifolds
J W Cannon, W J Floyd and W R Parry |
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Algebraic & Geometric Topology 9 (2009) 187–220
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Abstract |
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Our earlier twisted-face-pairing construction showed how to modify an arbitrary orientation-reversing face-pairing on a faceted 3–ball in a mechanical way so that the quotient is automatically a closed, orientable 3–manifold. The modifications were, in fact, parametrized by a finite set of positive integers, arbitrarily chosen, one integer for each edge class of the original face-pairing. This allowed us to find very simple face-pairing descriptions of many, though presumably not all, 3–manifolds. Here we show how to modify the construction to allow negative parameters, as well as positive parameters, in the twisted-face-pairing construction. We call the modified construction the bitwist construction. We prove that all closed connected orientable 3–manifolds are bitwist manifolds. As with the twist construction, we analyze and describe the Heegaard splitting naturally associated with a bitwist description of a manifold. |
Keywords
3–manifold constructions, Dehn surgeries
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 57N10
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Publication
Received: 13 June 2008
Revised: 13 January 2009
Accepted: 13 November 2008
Published: 2 February 2009
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Authors |
| J W Cannon | |
| Department of Mathematics Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 USA |
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| W J Floyd | |
| Department of Mathematics Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA |
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| http://www.math.vt.edu/people/floyd/ | |
| W R Parry | |
| Department of Mathematics Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA |
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