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Normal surface Q-theory

Jeffrey L. Tollefson

Vol. 183 (1998), No. 2, 359–374
Abstract

We describe an approach to normal surface theory for triangulated 3-manifolds which uses only the quadrilateral disk types (Q-disks) to represent a nontrivial normal surface. Just as with regular normal surface theory, interesting surfaces are among those associated with the vertices of the projective solution space of this new Q-theory.

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Received: 28 October 1996
Revised: 24 March 1997
Published: 1 April 1998
Authors
Jeffrey L. Tollefson
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3009