Handle-decompositions of -manifolds
Harmonic morphisms are considered as a natural generalization of the analytic functions of Riemann surface theory. It is shown that any closed analytic 3-manifold supporting a non-constant harmonic morphism into a Riemann surface must be a Seifert fibre space. Harmonic morphisms from a closed 4-manifold to a 3-manifold are studied. These determine a locally smooth circle action on with possible fixed points. This restricts the topology of . In all cases, a harmonic morphism from a closed...
The h-cobordism theorem is a noted theorem in differential and PL topology. A generalization of the h-cobordism theorem for possibly non simply connected manifolds is the so called s-cobordism theorem. In this paper, we prove semialgebraic and Nash versions of these theorems. That is, starting with semialgebraic or Nash cobordism data, we get a semialgebraic homeomorphism (respectively a Nash diffeomorphism). The main tools used are semialgebraic triangulation and Nash approximation.One aspect of...
We show that any Heegaard splitting of the pair of the solid torus (≅D2xS1) and its core loop (an interior point xS1) is standard, using the notion of Heegaard splittings of pairs of 3-manifolds and properly imbedded graphs, which is defined in this paper.