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Degeneration of Heegaard genus, a survey
David Bachman, Ryan Derby-Talbot
We survey known (and unknown) results about the behavior of Heegaard genus of 3-manifolds constructed via various gluings. The constructions we consider are (1) gluing together two…
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Stabilizing Heegaard splittings of toroidal 3-manifolds
Ryan Derby-Talbot
Let be a separating incompressible torus in a 3-manifold . Assuming that a genus Heegaard splitting can be positioned nicely with respect to (e.g. $V \c…