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2006 Surface subgroups and handlebody attachment
Vivien R Easson
Geom. Topol. 10(1): 557-591 (2006). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2006.10.557

Abstract

The main theorem of this paper generalizes recent results in Dehn surgery to the case of handlebody attachment. We consider attaching handlebodies and solid tori to the boundary of an irreducible, boundary-irreducible, atoroidal and acylindrical 3–manifold. We show that for a large class of homeomorphisms attaching these handlebodies, the fundamental group of the resulting manifold contains the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus at least two.

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Vivien R Easson. "Surface subgroups and handlebody attachment." Geom. Topol. 10 (1) 557 - 591, 2006. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2006.10.557

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Received: 4 March 2004; Revised: 19 July 2005; Accepted: 25 March 2006; Published: 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1128.57019
MathSciNet: MR2224465
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2006.10.557

Subjects:
Primary: 57N10
Secondary: 20H10 , 57M50 , 57N35

Keywords: 3-manifold , handlebody attachment , surface subgroup

Rights: Copyright © 2006 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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