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Simple Slice Surfaces
Mark Pencovitch
Given a simply-connected -manifold with boundary the -sphere, we give sufficient conditions for a knot in the boundary to bound a simply embedded locally flat surface in the…
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A survey on mapping class groups of 3-manifolds
Philipp Bader, Rachael Boyd, Giulia Carfora +8
We survey computations and tools concerning the mapping class group of a compact, oriented, connected 3-manifold . We provide a guide to the literature and sketch proofs for var…