A note on irreducible Heegaard diagrams.
Decomposing four-manifolds up to homotopy type.
Neuwirth manifolds and colourings of graphs.
A genus for N-dimensional knots and links.
On 4-manifolds with free fundamental group.
On classification of -manifolds according to genus
Minimal atlases of manifolds
Knot manifolds with isomorphic spines
We study the relation between the concept of spine and the representation of orientable bordered 3-manifolds by Heegaard diagrams. As a consequence, we show that composing invertible non-amphicheiral knots yields examples of topologically different knot manifolds with isomorphic spines. These results are related to some questions listed in [9], [11] and recover the main theorem of [10] as a corollary. Finally, an application concerning knot manifolds of composite knots with h prime factors completes...
On pseudo-isotopy classes of homeomorphisms of a dimensional differentiable manifold.
We study self-homotopy equivalences and diffeomorphisms of the (n+1)-dimensional manifold X= #p(S1 x Sn) for any n ≥ 3. Then we completely determine the group of pseudo-isotopy classes of homeomorphisms of X and extend to dimension n well-known theorems due to F. Laudenbach and V. Poenaru (1972,1973), and J. M. Montesinos (1979).
On the intersection forms of closed 4-manifolds.
Given a closed 4-manifold M, let M* be the simply-connected 4-manifold obtained from M by killing the fundamental group. We study the relation between the intersection forms λ and λ. Finally some topological consequences and examples are described.
On the topological structure of compact 5-manifolds
We classify the genus one compact (PL) 5-manifolds and prove some results about closed 5-manifolds with free fundamental group. In particular, let be a closed connected orientable smooth -manifold with free fundamental group. Then we prove that the number of distinct smooth -manifolds homotopy equivalent to equals the -nd Betti number (mod ) of .
On manifold spines and cyclic presentations of groups
This is a survey of results and open problems on compact 3-manifolds which admit spines corresponding to cyclic presentations of groups. We also discuss questions concerning spines of knot manifolds and regular neighborhoods of homotopically PL embedded compacta in 3-manifolds.
Cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots.
In this paper we study the connections between cyclic presentations of groups and the fundamental group of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots. Then we show that the topology of these manifolds (and knots) arises, in a natural way, from the algebraic properties of such presentations.
Surgery on pairs of closed manifolds
To apply surgery theory to the problem of classifying pairs of closed manifolds, it is necessary to know the subgroup of the group generated by those elements which are realized by normal maps to a pair of closed manifolds. This closely relates to the surgery problem for a closed manifold and to the computation of the assembly map. In this paper we completely determine such subgroups for many cases of Browder-Livesay pairs of closed manifolds. Moreover, very explicit results are obtained in the...
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