2 papers
math.GT2002
Characteristic subsurfaces and Dehn filling
Steven Boyer, Marc Culler, Peter B. Shalen +1
Let M be a compact, orientable, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with boundary an incompressible torus. Techniques based on the characteristic submanifold theory are used to bound…
math.GT2002
Orderable 3-manifold groups
Steven Boyer, Dale Rolfsen, Bert Wiest
We investigate the orderability properties of fundamental groups of 3-dimensional manifolds. Many 3-manifold groups support left-invariant orderings, including all compact P^2-irre…