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Arcbodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Maria Teresa Lozano
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Extract

A Haken manifold is a compact, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold which contains a properly embedded 2-sided, incompressible surface of positive genus. These manifolds are important in connection with the work of Haken, Waldhausen and the more recent work of Thurston (8). Thus it is interesting to investigate criteria for testing incompressible surfaces on 3-manifolds.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1983

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