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On the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds

Burak Ozbagci (2011)

Open Mathematics

It is well-known that the Heegaard genus is additive under connected sum of 3-manifolds. We show that the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds is not necessarily additive under contact connected sum. We also prove some basic properties of the contact genus (a.k.a. open book genus [Rubinstein J.H., Comparing open book and Heegaard decompositions of 3-manifolds, Turkish J. Math., 2003, 27(1), 189–196]) of 3-manifolds, and compute this invariant for some 3-manifolds.

On the homological category of 3-manifolds.

José Carlos Gómez Larrañaga, Francisco Javier González Acuña (1991)

Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Let M be a closed, connected, orientable 3-manifold. Denote by n(S1 x S2) the connected sum of n copies of S1 x S2. We prove that if the homological category of M is three then for some n ≥ 1, H*(M) is isomorphic (as a ring) to H*(n(S1 x S2)).

On the intersection forms of closed 4-manifolds.

Alberto Cavicchioli, Friedrich Hegenbarth (1992)

Publicacions Matemàtiques

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 λM and λM*. Finally some topological consequences and examples are described.

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